Buddhist Parables

Title

en_US Buddhist Parables

en_US Buddhist Tradition Series #13

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)

en_US Original language: pli

en_US Translated from the original P?li by Eugene Watson Burlingame

Creator

en_US Burlingame, Eugene Watson (translator)

Date

2016-01-25T20:05:06Z

en_US 1999-07

en_US 1994

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:05:06Z

Date Issued

en_US 1991

Abstract

en_US First published by Yale University Press in 1922. The first Indian edition was done in 1991. This is a 1994 reprint. Here on 348 pages are some two hundred and twenty Buddhist parables. Some, particularly early parables, have both a canonical and an uncanonical version. I read several to get their flavor. One finds, again particularly among the early materials, several stories that are commonly told, even among Western fables. The Grateful Elephant (1) has several phases but is built on the basic concept of generosity, I would say. Blind Men and Elephant (75) is the story we know well. How Not to Hit an Insect (82) has the common fable theme Better an enemy with sense than a friend without it. The story is like our Bear and the Gardener but uses instead a father and son. The Snake (185) starts from the difference between grasping a snake by its head and grasping it elsewhere. So there is a way to grasp the scriptures aright and way to miss their meaning. Boar and Lion (297) has the key command Eat me, O lion! More than one character in this story offers himself as food for others.

Identifier

en_US 9788120816824 (pbk.)

en_US 7372 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/82642

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Motilal Banarsidass Publishers

en_US Delhi, India

Subject

en_US BL1410.B9 1991

en_US Buddhist

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole