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When the Buddha Was an Elephant: 32 Animal Wisdom Tales from the Jataka

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A treasury of traditional Buddhist wisdom tales, illustrated with gorgeous original artwork.

The Buddhist jataka tales are simple lessons in living with honesty, wisdom, and compassion that contain the facility to develop into the hearts and minds of folks that hear them. They’re stories of the Buddha’s past lives—in such forms as a boar, a parrot, a monkey, or a peacock—that experience enchanted children and adults for millennia. Their animal characters powerfully and now and again humorously demonstrate the virtues and foibles to which we humans are prone, they usually point learn how to more enlightened ways of living. Mark McGinnis retells the jatakas in poetic and accessible language, rendering the Buddhist teachings they contain abundantly clear. Each and every tale is delivered to life by Mark’s full-color illustration, making the book a visually stunning entrée to this edifying and highly entertaining literary tradition.

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