Heart of Gold: A Jataka Tale

Title

en_US Heart of Gold: A Jataka Tale

en_US Jataka Tale Series

en_US Dh10

Creator

en_US No Author See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Illustrated by Rosalyn White

Date

2016-01-25T19:37:47Z

en_US 2004-12

en_US 1989

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:37:47Z

Date Issued

en_US 1989

Abstract

en_US Heart of Gold is in fact a human being who rejoices to give his immense wealth to those less fortunate. Shakra, one of the devas in heaven, declares that it is too easy for a rich man to be generous. Let him lose a little wealth, and we shall see if he doesn't become stingy! Soon he is stripped of everything except a rope, a sickle, and his nightshirt. Shakra offers one last, great temptation: Store up some wealth, so that you will have more to give in the future. Heart of Gold resists, saying especially that there is no time for what he suggests. The special feature of the art of this series during the late 1980's seems to lie in the golden lines used to outline the portions of a given picture. Perhaps the best of the images shows Heart of Gold's earthly possessions leaving him in a very literal sense near the middle of this unpaginated, oversized pamphlet.

Identifier

en_US 0898001935 (pbk.)

en_US 5325 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/80870

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Dharma Press

en_US Oakland, Calif.

Subject

en_US BQ1462.E5 H43 1989 See all items with this value

en_US Jatakas See all items with this value

Type

Pamphlet