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67 relations: A. K. Warder, Aesop's Fables, Ajanta Caves, Andhra Pradesh, Apocrypha, Ashoka, Borobudur, Buddhist ethics, Caitika, Cambridge University Press, Canon law, Cariyapitaka, Edward Byles Cowell, Faxian, Folklore studies, Four harmonious animals, Gandavyuha, Gautama Buddha, Gujar Khan, Happy ending, Harvard Oriental Series, Henny Penny, India, Jataka tales, Johan Hendrik Caspar Kern, Khuddaka Nikaya, Lalitavistara Sūtra, Laos, Leiden University, Lunar calendar, Mahanipata Jataka, Mahāsāṃghika, Mankiala stupa, Moon rabbit, Myanmar, Pakistan, Pali Text Society, Panchatantra, Pāli Canon, Persian language, Prince Sattva, Puranas, Pushkalavati, Relief, Ruwanwelisaya, Sanskrit, Sibi Jataka, Southeast Asia, Sri Lanka, Stupa, ..., Sutta Pitaka, Thailand, The Ass and the Pig, The Ass in the Lion's Skin, The Cock, the Dog and the Fox, The Fox and the Crow (Aesop), The Goose That Laid the Golden Eggs, The Lion, the Bear and the Fox, The Tiger, the Brahmin and the Jackal, The Tortoise and the Birds, The Twelve Sisters, The Wolf and the Crane, Theravada, Thomas Rhys Davids, Tibet, Vessantara Jataka, Xuanzang. Expand index (17 more) »
A. K. Warder
Anthony Kennedy Warder (September 8, 1924 - January 8, 2013) was a British scholar of Indology, mostly in Buddhist studies and related fields, such as the Pāḷi and Sanskrit languages.
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Aesop's Fables
Aesop's Fables, or the Aesopica, is a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and storyteller believed to have lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 564 BCE.
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Ajanta Caves
The Ajanta Caves are 29 (approximately) rock-cut Buddhist cave monuments which date from the 2nd century BCE to about 480 CE in Aurangabad district of Maharashtra state of India.
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Andhra Pradesh
Andhra Pradesh is one of the 29 states of India.
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Apocrypha
Apocrypha are works, usually written, of unknown authorship or of doubtful origin.
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Ashoka
Ashoka (died 232 BCE), or Ashoka the Great, was an Indian emperor of the Maurya Dynasty, who ruled almost all of the Indian subcontinent from to 232 BCE.
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Borobudur
Borobudur, or Barabudur (Candi Borobudur, Candhi Barabudhur) is a 9th-century Mahayana Buddhist temple in Magelang Regency, not far from the town of Muntilan, in Central Java, Indonesia.
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Buddhist ethics
Buddhist ethics are traditionally based on what Buddhists view as the enlightened perspective of the Buddha, or other enlightened beings such as Bodhisattvas.
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Caitika
Caitika was an early Buddhist school, a sub-sect of the Mahāsāṃghika.
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Cambridge University Press
Cambridge University Press (CUP) is the publishing business of the University of Cambridge.
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Canon law
Canon law (from Greek kanon, a 'straight measuring rod, ruler') is a set of ordinances and regulations made by ecclesiastical authority (Church leadership), for the government of a Christian organization or church and its members.
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Cariyapitaka
The Cariyapitaka (where cariya is Pali for "conduct" or "proper conduct" and pitaka is usually translated as "basket"; abbrev. Cp) is a Buddhist scripture, part of the Pali Canon of Theravada Buddhism.
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Edward Byles Cowell
Edward Byles Cowell FBA (23 January 1826 – 9 February 1903) was a noted translator of Persian poetry and the first professor of Sanskrit at Cambridge University.
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Faxian
Faxian (337 – c. 422) was a Chinese Buddhist monk who travelled by foot from China to India, visiting many sacred Buddhist sites in what are now Xinjiang, Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka between 399-412 to acquire Buddhist texts.
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Folklore studies
Folklore studies, also known as folkloristics, and occasionally tradition studies or folk life studies in Britain, is the formal academic discipline devoted to the study of folklore.
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Four harmonious animals
The four harmonious animals, four harmonious friends or four harmonious brothers figure in Jātaka tales and other Buddhist mythology, and can often be found as subject in Bhutanese and Tibetan art.
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Gandavyuha
The Gaṇḍavyūha Sutra or The Flower Ornament Scripture is a Buddhist Mahayana Sutra of Indian origin dating roughly c. 200 to 300 CE.
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Gautama Buddha
Gautama Buddha (c. 563/480 – c. 483/400 BCE), also known as Siddhārtha Gautama, Shakyamuni Buddha, or simply the Buddha, after the title of Buddha, was an ascetic (śramaṇa) and sage, on whose teachings Buddhism was founded.
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Gujar Khan
Gujar Khan (Punjabi/گوجر خان) is a city in Rawalpindi District, Punjab, Pakistan.
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Happy ending
A happy ending is an ending of the plot of a work of fiction in which almost everything turns out for the best for the protagonists, their sidekicks, and almost everyone except the villains.
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Harvard Oriental Series
The Harvard Oriental Series is a book series founded in 1891 by Charles Rockwell Lanman and Henry Clarke Warren.
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Henny Penny
Henny Penny, more commonly known in the United States as Chicken Little and sometimes as Chicken Licken, is a folk tale with a moral in the form of a cumulative tale about a chicken who believes the world is coming to an end.
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India
India (IAST), also called the Republic of India (IAST), is a country in South Asia.
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Jataka tales
The Jātaka tales are a voluminous body of literature native to India concerning the previous births of Gautama Buddha in both human and animal form.
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Johan Hendrik Caspar Kern
Johan Hendrik Caspar Kern (April 6, 1833 – July 4, 1917) was a Dutch linguist and Orientalist.
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Khuddaka Nikaya
The Khuddaka Nikāya (‘Minor Collection’) is the last of the five nikayas, or collections, in the Sutta Pitaka, which is one of the "three baskets" that compose the Pali Tipitaka, the scriptures of Theravada Buddhism.
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Lalitavistara Sūtra
The Lalitavistara Sūtra is a Mahayana Buddhist sutra that tells the story of Gautama Buddha from the time of his descent from Tushita until his first sermon in the Deer Park near Varanasi.
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Laos
Laos (ລາວ,, Lāo; Laos), officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic (Lao: ສາທາລະນະລັດ ປະຊາທິປະໄຕ ປະຊາຊົນລາວ, Sathalanalat Paxathipatai Paxaxon Lao; République démocratique populaire lao), commonly referred to by its colloquial name of Muang Lao (Lao: ເມືອງລາວ, Muang Lao), is a landlocked country in the heart of the Indochinese peninsula of Mainland Southeast Asia, bordered by Myanmar (Burma) and China to the northwest, Vietnam to the east, Cambodia to the southwest and Thailand to the west and southwest.
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Leiden University
Leiden University (abbreviated as LEI; Universiteit Leiden), founded in the city of Leiden, is the oldest university in the Netherlands.
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Lunar calendar
A lunar calendar is a calendar based upon the monthly cycles of the Moon's phases (synodic months), in contrast to solar calendars, whose annual cycles are based only directly upon the solar year.
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Mahanipata Jataka
The Mahanipata Jataka, sometimes translated as the Ten Great Birth Stories of the Buddha, are a set of stories from the Jataka tales describing the ten final lives of the Bodisattva who would finally be born as Siddharta Gautama and eventually become Gautama Buddha.
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Mahāsāṃghika
The Mahāsāṃghika (Sanskrit "of the Great Sangha") was one of the early Buddhist schools.
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Mankiala stupa
The Mankiala Stupa (مانكياله اسٹوپ) is a 2nd-century Buddhist stupa near the village of Tope Mankiala, in Pakistan's Punjab province.
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Moon rabbit
The moon rabbit in folklore is a rabbit that lives on the Moon, based on pareidolia that identifies the markings of the Moon as a rabbit.
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Myanmar
Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and also known as Burma, is a sovereign state in Southeast Asia.
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Pakistan
Pakistan (پاکِستان), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan (اِسلامی جمہوریہ پاکِستان), is a country in South Asia.
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Pali Text Society
The Pali Text Society is a text publication society founded in 1881 by Thomas William Rhys Davids "to foster and promote the study of Pāli texts".
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Panchatantra
The Panchatantra (IAST: Pañcatantra, पञ्चतन्त्र, "Five Treatises") is an ancient Indian work of political philosophy, in the form of a collection of interrelated animal fables in Sanskrit verse and prose, arranged within a frame story.
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Pāli Canon
The Pāli Canon is the standard collection of scriptures in the Theravada Buddhist tradition, as preserved in the Pāli language.
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Persian language
Persian, also known by its endonym Farsi (فارسی), is one of the Western Iranian languages within the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family.
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Prince Sattva
Prince Sattva was one of the previous incarnations of Gautama Buddha, according to a jataka story.
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Puranas
The Puranas (singular: पुराण), are ancient Hindu texts eulogizing various deities, primarily the divine Trimurti God in Hinduism through divine stories.
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Pushkalavati
Pushkalavati (Pashto and) was the capital of the Gandhara kingdom.
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Relief
Relief is a sculptural technique where the sculpted elements remain attached to a solid background of the same material.
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Ruwanwelisaya
The Ruwanwelisaya is a stupa, a hemispherical structure containing relics, in Sri Lanka, considered sacred to many Buddhists all over the world.
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Sanskrit
Sanskrit is the primary liturgical language of Hinduism; a philosophical language of Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism and Jainism; and a former literary language and lingua franca for the educated of ancient and medieval India.
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Sibi Jataka
Shibi Jataka is one of the Jataka tales detailing episodes of the various incarnations of Buddha.
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Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia or Southeastern Asia is a subregion of Asia, consisting of the countries that are geographically south of China, east of India, west of New Guinea and north of Australia.
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Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka (Sinhala: ශ්රී ලංකා; Tamil: இலங்கை Ilaṅkai), officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia, located in the Indian Ocean to the southwest of the Bay of Bengal and to the southeast of the Arabian Sea.
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Stupa
A stupa (Sanskrit: "heap") is a mound-like or hemispherical structure containing relics (śarīra - typically the remains of Buddhist monks or nuns) that is used as a place of meditation.
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Sutta Pitaka
The Sutta Pitaka (or Suttanta Pitaka; Basket of Discourse; cf Sanskrit सूत्र पिटक) is the second of the three divisions of the Tripitaka or Pali Canon, the Pali collection of Buddhist writings of Theravada Buddhism.
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Thailand
Thailand, officially the Kingdom of Thailand and formerly known as Siam, is a unitary state at the center of the Southeast Asian Indochinese peninsula composed of 76 provinces.
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The Ass and the Pig
The Ass and the Pig is one of Aesop's Fables (Perry Index 526) that was never adopted in the West but has Eastern variants that remain popular.
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The Ass in the Lion's Skin
The Ass in the Lion's Skin is one of Aesop's Fables, of which there are two distinct versions.
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The Cock, the Dog and the Fox
The Cock, the Dog and the Fox is one of Aesop's Fables and appears as number 252 in the Perry Index.
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The Fox and the Crow (Aesop)
The Fox and the Crow is one of Aesop's Fables, numbered 124 in the Perry Index.
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The Goose That Laid the Golden Eggs
"To kill the Goose That Laid the Golden Eggs" is an idiom used of an unprofitable action motivated by greed.
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The Lion, the Bear and the Fox
The Lion, the Bear and the Fox is one of Aesop's Fables that is numbered 147 in the Perry Index.
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The Tiger, the Brahmin and the Jackal
The Tiger, the Brahmin and the Jackal is a popular Indian fairy tale with a long history and many variants.
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The Tortoise and the Birds
The Tortoise and the Birds is a fable of probable folk origin, early versions of which are found in both India and Greece.
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The Twelve Sisters
The legend of The Twelve Sisters or The Twelve Ladies, known as Nang Sip Song (นางสิบสอง) or as Phra Rot Meri (พระรถเมรี) in Thai and as Puthisen Neang Kong Rei in Khmer, is a Southeast Asian folktale, and also an apocryphal Jātaka Tale, the Rathasena Jātaka of the Paññāsa Jātaka collection.
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The Wolf and the Crane
The Wolf and the Crane is a fable attributed to Aesop that has several eastern analogues.
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Theravada
Theravāda (Pali, literally "school of the elder monks") is a branch of Buddhism that uses the Buddha's teaching preserved in the Pāli Canon as its doctrinal core.
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Thomas Rhys Davids
Thomas William Rhys Davids, FBA (12 May 1843 – 27 December 1922) was a British scholar of the Pāli language and founder of the Pāli Text Society.
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Tibet
Tibet is a historical region covering much of the Tibetan Plateau in Central Asia.
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Vessantara Jataka
The Vessantara Jātaka is one of the most popular apadānas of Theravada Buddhism.
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Xuanzang
Xuanzang (fl. c. 602 – 664) was a Chinese Buddhist monk, scholar, traveller, and translator who travelled to India in the seventh century and described the interaction between Chinese Buddhism and Indian Buddhism during the early Tang dynasty.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jataka_tales
