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Buddhist Animal Wisdom Stories

By: Mark W. McGinnis
Narrated by: Rachel Yoder, Sanjiv Jhaveri
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Around the beginning of the common era, Indian Buddhists began to collect fables, or jataka tales, illuminating various human virtues and foibles - from kindness, cooperation, loyalty and self-discipline on the one hand to greed, pride, foolishness, and treachery on the other. Instead of populating these stories with people, they cast the animals of their immediate environment in the leading roles - which may have given the tales a universal appeal that helped them travel around the world, surfacing in the Middle East as Aesop's fables and in various other guises throughout East and Southeast Asia, Africa, Russia, and Europe. Author and painter Mark McGinnis has collected over 40 of these hallowed popular tales and retold them in vividly poetic yet accessible language, their original Buddhist messages firmly intact.

©2004 Mark W. McGinnis (P)2014 Audible Inc.
Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Myths Religious Fiction

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