Maha Prajnaparamita Sastra
by Gelongma Karma Migme Chödrön | 2001 | 941,039 words
This page describes “jataka” as written by Nagarjuna in his Maha-prajnaparamita-sastra (lit. “the treatise on the great virtue of wisdom”) in the 2nd century. This book, written in five volumes, represents an encyclopedia on Buddhism as well as a commentary on the Pancavimsatisahasrika Prajnaparamita.
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Ninth aṅga (member): Jātaka
Stories of previous lives (jātaka):
[The lion, the monkey and the vulture]
– There are innumerable stories of this kind where people are saved: they are called Jātakas.
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