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Buddha Dharma Education Association Inc.

Interpreted by Ven. Kurunegoda Piyatissa

Stories told by Todd Anderson

Buddha's Tales for Young and Old

Volume 1 - Illustrated

Buddha's Tales for Young and Old

Volume 1 - Illustrated

Prince

Goodspeaker

Contents

Interpreter’s Introduction vi

From The Storyteller To The Reader xii

1. Demons In The Desert

[The Correct Way Of Thinking] 1

2. Finding A New Spring

[Perseverance] 7

3. The Golden Plate

[Greed And Honesty] 11

4. The Mouse Merchant

[Diligence And Gratitude] 15

5. The Price Maker

[Foolishness] 20

6. Prince Goodspeaker And The Water Demon

[Chapter 1. Rebirth Of The Bodhisatta] 25

[Chapter 2. The Teaching Of The Gods] 27

7. Little Prince No-father

[The Power Of Truth] 36

8, 462. The One-hundredth Prince

[Obedience To A Wise Teacher] 41

9. The King With One Gray Hair

[Ordination] 47

10. The Happy Monk

[Joys Of The Spiritual Life] 51

11. Beauty And Gray

[A Wise Leader] 56

12. King Banyan Deer

[Chapter 1. Compassion] 60

[Chapter 2. Teaching] 66

13. Mountain Buck And Village Doe

[Infatuation] 69

14. The Wind-deer And The Honey-grass

[The Craving For Taste] 74

15. The Fawn Who Played Hooky

[Truancy] 78

16. The Fawn Who Played Dead

[Attendance] 80

17. The Wind And The Moon

[Friendship] 84

18. The Goat Who Saved The Priest

[Ignorance] 86

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19. The God In The Banyan Tree

[A Bad Promise] 91

20. The Monkey King And The Water Demon

[Attentiveness] 94

21. The Tree That Acted Like A Hunter

[Impatience] 98

22. The Dog King Silver

[Justice] 101

23, 24. The Great Horse Knowing-one

[Courage] 108

25. Dirty Bath Water

[Cleanliness] 115

26. Ladyface

[Association] 118

27. Best Friends

[The Power Of Friendship] 123

28, 88. The Bull Called Delightful

[All Deserve Respect] 128

29. Grandma’s Blackie

[Loving-kindness] 133

30, 286. Big Red, Little Red And No-squeal

[Envy] 137

31. The Heaven Of 33

[Chapter 1. Co-operation] 140

[Chapter 2. Compassion] 148

[Chapter 3. Merit] 151

32. The Dancing Peacock

[Pride And Modesty] 156

33. The Quail King And The Hunter

[Unity] 159

34, 216. The Fortunate Fish

[Desire] 163

35. The Baby Quail Who Could Not Fly Away

[The Power Of Truth,

Wholesomeness And Compassion] 166

36. Wise Birds And Foolish Birds

[Good Advice] 169

37. The Birth Of A Banyan Tree

[Respect For Elders] 171

38. The Crane And The Crab

[Trickery] 175

39. Buried Treasure

[The Arrogance Of Power] 182

40. The Silent Buddha

[Generosity] 186

41, 82, 104, 369, 439. The Curse Of Mittavinda

[Chapter 1. Jealousy] 193

[Chapter 2. Greed] 200

[Chapter 3. Pleasure] 204

42, 274, 375. The Pigeon And The Crow

[The Danger Of Greed] 211

43. Bamboo’s Father

[Wasted Advice] 218

44, 45. Two Stupid Children

[Foolishness] 221

46, 268 Watering The Garden

[Foolishness] 224

47. Salty Liquor

[Foolishness] 227

48. The Magic Priest And The Kidnapper Gang

[Power And Greed] 229

49. The Groom Who Lost His Bride To The Stars

[Astrology] 237

50. The Prince Who Had A Plan

[The Power Of Superstition] 241

Appendix A. Who Was the Bodhisatta? 246

Appendix B. An Arrangement of Morals 248

Interpreter’s Introduction

It is a pleasure to rewrite the Jataka stories in modern

English understandable by western readers. To achieve this goal,

the stories are being retold in order to convey the spirit and

meaning. They are not scholarly word-for-word translations as

have been done by others. The Pali Text Society has published

the whole text in English translations a hundred years ago. In Sri

Lanka they were translated into Sinhalese in the 14th century,

where they were known as Pansiya Panas Jataka.

In all Buddhist countries the Jataka tales were the major

sources for developing the character of the people. They were

used widely in preaching by monks and lay preachers. King

Dutugemunu (2nd century B. C.), in Anuradhapura, paid for

the support of preachers to teach Dhamma, the teachings of

the Buddha. They usually used these stories in their sermons.

Even the Venerable Arahant Maha Mahinda, who introduced

Dhamma into Sri Lanka, used these stories to illustrate the truth

of the teachings. Some were even used by the Lord Buddha

in his teachings, and from him his followers learned them and

passed them into popular use in society. Even earlier, the same

types of stories were present in Vedic literature.

Greek myths, as well as the fables of Aesop, inherited

them from the Vedas and Buddhism; Persia also took them from

India. They later migrated into the stories of Chaucer in England

and Boccaccio in Italy. The stories were used for a variety of

purposes. In Sanskrit, the Pancatantra used them to teach Law

and Economics, and the Katha Sarit Sagara used them for the

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development of knowledge, as well as just for enjoyment. In the

past, people have been satisﬁ ed and fulﬁ lled in many ways by

hearing them in forms ranging from lessons to fairy tales.

By reading these stories, children and adults can develop

their knowledge and learn how to face the difﬁ cult experiences

of modern life. They can easily develop human values and

good qualities like patience, forbearance, tolerance and the

four sublime states of mind – loving-kindness, compassion,

sympathetic joy and equanimity. The major purpose of these

stories is to develop the moral and ethical values of the readers.

Without them, people cannot be peaceful and happy in their

hearts and minds. And the reader will ﬁ nd that these values are

very different from those of the wider, violently acquisitive, ego-

based society.

In this interpretation, changes are being made to the

style of the old Jataka stories, and explanations are added, as

is appropriate for children in the modern world. The lovely

artwork is also sometimes in a modern setting, to attract young

and old to the truths contained in the tales.

The sources used have been as follows:

1. Jataka Pali (Colombo: Buddha Jayanti Tripitaka

Series Publication Board, 1983) – original Pali

stanzas.

2. Jataka Pali (Colombo: Simon Hewavitarane

Bequest, 1926) – original Pali Jataka stories in

Sinhalese characters.

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3. Sinhala Jataka Pot Vahanse (Colombo:

Jinalankara Press, 1928) – Sinhalese translation

of Pali Jataka stories.

4. Sinhala Jataka Pot Vahanse, (Colombo:

Ratnakara Bookshop, 1961) – Sinhalese

translation of Pali Jataka stories.

5. Jataka Pota, ed. Lionel Lokuliyana (Colombo:

M. D. Gunasena & Co., 1960) – Sinhalese

translation of ﬁ rst ﬁ fty Pali Jataka stories.

6. The Jataka or Stories of the Buddha’s Former

Lives, ed. E. B. Cowell (London: Pali Text

Society, 1981), 6 vols., index – English

translation of Pali Jataka stories.

7. Pansiyapanas Jataka Pot Vahanse

(Bandaragama: H. W. N. Prematilaka, 1987) –

Sinhalese summaries of Pali Jataka stories.

In addition, “From the Storyteller to the Listeners”

(below), contains a paraphrase taken from “Discourse With

Canki,” Middle Length Sayings (Majjhima-Nikaya), trans. I. B.

Horner (London: Pali Text Society, 1975), 11, 95, pp. 362-3. The

title of the fourth story, “The Mouse Merchant”, was originally

in Somadeva, The Ocean of Story (Katha Sarit Sagara), trans.

C. H. Tawney (London: C. J. Sawyer, 1924).

The sequence numbers used for the stories are in the

same order as in the Jataka Pali and The Jataka or Stories of

the Buddha’s Former Lives (above). Multiple sequence numbers

indicate that identical, similar or partial stories are told in one

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