Twenty Jātaka tales

by Noor Inayat Khan

Paperback, 1985

Publication

Imprint: Rochester, Vermont. : Inner Traditions International, 1985. Responsibility: retold by Noor Inayat Khan ; illustrated by H. Willebeek Le Mair. OCLC Number: 23145267. Physical: Text : 1 volume : 148 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Call number

Juv-FLM / Khan

Barcode

BK-02614

ISBN

9780892813230

CSS Library Notes

Description: Twenty tales drawn from the famous legends concerning the former lives of the Buddha. Beloved by children and adults alike, they tell of people and animals moved to acts of sacrifice by the noble example of their fellow creatures. The flavor is often suggestive of Aesop, as are the lessons that are so subtly and keenly conveyed. -- from back cover.

Table of Contents: Monkey-bridge --
Guilty dogs --
Banyan --
Tortoise and the geese 00 Fairy and the hare --
Golden feathers --
Young parrot --
Empty lake --
Swan kingdom --
Master's test --
Two pigs --
Patient buffalo --
Sarabha --
Goblin town --
Great elephant --
Quarrelsome quails --
Forest fire --
End of the world --
Golden goose --
Noble horse.

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Physical description

148 p.; 21 cm

Description

Recounts how Buddha came once as a monkey among the monkeys and gave his life to save them, and nineteen other Jataka stories which recount events in his different lives.

Language

Original language

English

User reviews

LibraryThing member jontseng
These translations of Indian folk tales have a just-so whimsy about them. Blink and you could be reading a story from Grimm or Hans Christian Anderson. The author's later fate only adds to the pathos.
LibraryThing member LaviniaRossetti
These Indian tales are very intelligent and marvellous, with their own morals and sayings. I have been learning about Ancient India, and little Indian children are meant to be told them too. They are all very good stories about talking animals and amazing kings.

The author of this book, who told all
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the Indian tales for little children, was an Indian princess named Noor. With easy-to-read words and sentences ('and to you, my little ones'), these tales are the perfect ones for six- twelve-year-olds. Noor was a very brave princess, and in the Second World War she chose to be a spy, not a pretty little princess surrounded in luxury. The Nazis captured her and tortured her trying to get her to name things and tell details - but she never once said anything. Soon, she was killed. Her last word was 'Liberty'.
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