Buddhist tales for young and old

Abstract

Table of Contents; Table of Contents ; Interpreter’s Introduction ; From the Storyteller to the Reader ; Tale 51 — King Goodness the Great ; Tale 52, 539 — King Fruitful and Queen Sivali ; Chapter 1. Rebirth of the Bodhisatta ; Chapter 2. Gaining Power ; Chapter 3. Giving Up Power ; Tale 53 — A Gang of Drunkards ; Tale 54, 85 — The Whatnot Tree ; Tale 55 — Prince Five-Weapons and Sticky-Hair ; Tale 56 — A Huge Lump of Gold ; Tale 57, 224 — Mr Monkey and Sir Crocodile ; Tale 58 — A Prince of Monkeys ; Tale 59, 60 — Two Ways of Beating a Drum ; Tale 61 — Two Mothers ; Tale 62 — The Priest Who Gambled With a Life ; Tale 63 — The Wicked Lady and Buttermilk Wise Man ; Tale 64, 65 — Country Man and City Wife ; Tale 66, 251 — The Wisdom of Queen Tenderhearted ; Tale 67 — A Wife & Mother Who Was a Sister First ; Tale 68, 237 — 3,000 Births ; Tale 69 — The Strong-minded Snake ; Tale 70 — The Shovel Wise Man ; Tale 71 — The Green Wood Gatherer ; Tale 72 — The Elephant King Goodness ; Tale 73 — Four on a Log ; Tale 74 — New Homes for the Tree Spirits ; Tale 75 — The Fish Who Worked a Miracle ; Tale 76 — The Meditating Security Guard ; Tale 77 — Sixteen Dreams ; Chapter 1. Panic ; Chapter 2. Roaring Bulls With No Fight ; Chapter 3. The Frightening Sound of ‘Munch, Munch, Munch’ ; Chapter 4. Teaching ; Tale 78 — Illisa the Cheap ; Tale 79 — A Motherless Son ; Tale 80 — Fear Maker and Little Archer ; Tale 81 — Forest Monks in a King’s Pleasure Garden ; Tale 82, 41, 104, 369, 439 — The Curse of Mittavinda ; Chapter 1. Jealousy ; Chapter 2. Greed ; Chapter 3. Pleasure ; Tale 83 — A Hero Named Jinx ; Tale 84 — A Question From a Seven-year-old ; Tale 86, 290, 362 — A Lesson From a Snake ; Tale 87 — A Priest Who Worshipped Luck ; Tale 88, 28 — The Bull Called Delightful ; Tale 89 — The Phony Holy Man ; Tale 90, 363 — One Way Hospitality ; Tale 91 — Poison Dice ; Tale 92 — The Mystery of the Missing Necklace ; Chapter 1. One Crime Leads to Another ; Chapter 2. The Mystery Is Solved ; Tale 93 — The Careless Lion ; Tale 94 — The Holy Man Who Tried To Be Too Holy ; Tale 95 — Clear-sighted the Great, King of the World ; Tale 96, 132 — The Prince and the She-devils ; Chapter 1. Five Meals in the Forest ; Chapter 2. A Feast in the Palace ; Tale 97 — A Man Named Bad ; Tale 98 — A Man Named Wise ; Tale 99, 101 — Achieving Nothing ; Tale 100 — A Mother’s Wise Advice ; Appendix A; Who Was the Bodhisatta? ; Appendix B; An Arrangement of Morals ;