Jataka

[ jah-tuh-kuh ]
/ ˈdʒɑ tə kə /

noun Buddhism.

a collection of fables, many concerning former lives of the Buddha.

Example sentences from the Web for jataka

  • After a while she made up her mind to relate a Jataka story that night.

    Little Sky-High |Hezekiah Butterworth

  • But one night she had said instead, "Now let me tell you a Jataka story!"

    Little Sky-High |Hezekiah Butterworth

  • The fashion is universal among savages; it descends to the Buddha's jataka, or parables, to Æsop and La Fontaine.

    Folk Stories from Southern Nigeria, West Africa |Elphinstone Dayrell