Pieces of Gold: A Jataka Tale

Title

en_US Pieces of Gold: A Jataka Tale

en_US Jataka Tales Series

en_US Dh22

Description

en_US Adapted by Dharma Publishing staff

Creator

en_US No Author See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Jan, Emily

Date

2016-01-25T19:37:50Z

en_US 2004-12

en_US 2001

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:37:50Z

Date Issued

en_US 2001

Abstract

en_US Here is yet another style for Dharma's Jataka Tales Series. The emphasis here lies on elements like dimensionality, fluidity, and contour. Two rich brothers are traveling. The younger substitutes a bag of gravel for his brother's sack of gold coins. The younger brother thinks then that he is throwing the bag of gravel overboard when he appears to stumble and drop it. It is really the bag of coins that goes overboard; the river goddess watches over it and has a big fish swallow it. When the younger brother at home discovers his mistake, he is disconsolate. The big fish is caught and up for sale; it goes to the older brother. His wife cuts it open and finds the sack, and he recognizes it as his. The river goddess hovers in his home and lets him know that this is a reward for the generosity he showed in feeding the fish of the Ganges. Against her advice, the older brother gives his younger brother half of the money; the latter, filled with shame for his selfish and dishonest action, resolves to change his ways and to practice generosity from that time on. This is one of many booklets in the Jataka Tales Series that I purchased directly from the publisher. Several of them were on sale because damaged. This is one of those: the pages are either separated from the binding or on their way to separation.

Identifier

en_US 0898003121 (cloth)

en_US 5337 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/80882

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Dharma Press

en_US Berkeley, CA

Subject

en_US BQ1462.E5 P54 2001 See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole