Taisho: Chinese Buddhist Canon

This is the Chinese Buddhist Canon known as the Taisho, or more specifically the “Taisho Revised Tripitaka” (Takakusu Junjiro 1988). The collection consists of thousands of scrolls including foundational texts such as Agamas, Mahayana Sutras, Vinaya, Abhidharma, Tantras, Jatakas and Avadanas (former birth stoeries), commentaries, histories, catalog...

Part 154 - Jataka stories (translated by Dharmaraksha)

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[full title]: Jātaka stories; 生經 [shēng jīng] (sheng jing)
[parallels]: Date 285 from Lancaster (2004, 'K 799')
[parallels]: Campbell, Duncan 2014, “An Historical Anecdote, a Religious Parable, and a Novel,” In: Qian, Zhongshu id. Patchwork: Seven Essays on Art and Literature, pp. 247-268, Leiden: Brill. Partial.
[primary source]: Dharmarakṣa, translator, 《生經》 'Jātaka stories (Sheng Jing),' in Taishō shinshū Daizōkyō 《大正新脩大藏經》, in Takakusu Junjiro, ed., (Tokyo: Taishō Shinshū Daizōkyō Kankōkai, 1988), Vol. 3, No. 154
[colophon]: 生經 西晉 竺法護譯 共 5 卷 Jātaka stories (Sheng Jing), Translated by Dharmarakṣa in the Western Jin in 5 scrolls

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