Buddhist Birth-Stories (Jataka Tales) The Commentarial Introduction Entitled Nidana-Katha: the Story of the Lineage translated from Prof. V. Fausboll’s edition of the Pali text by T.W. Rhys Davids
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Buddhist Birth-Stories (Jataka Tales) The Commentarial Introduction Entitled Nidana-Katha: the Story of the Lineage translated from Prof. V. Fausboll’s edition of the Pali text by T.W. Rhys Davids, New and Revised Edition by Mrs. Rhys Davids, circa 1925. “One of the oldest classes of Buddhist literature, the Jakata Tales (or Birth Stories), mainly concern the previous births of Gautama Buddha in both human and animal form. This new and revised edition (1925) was edited by the author’s wife, Caroline Augusta Foley Rhys Davids (1857-1942), who was, like her husband, a notable Pali scholar and translator. Thomas William Rhys Davids (1843-1922) was an English scholar of the Pali language and founder of the Pali Text Society (Caroline was its president 1925-1943).”
Hardcover with original dust jacket with light shelfwear to corners and ends of jacket.
