Tale

 1 Pre   |    Jatakas, or Birth-stories of Buddha. These Jatakas contain a
 2 Lion  |      great Teacher, Gautama the Buddha, told this tale, he used
 3 Tortoi|   Talkative Tortoise~THE future Buddha was once born in a minister'
 4 Tortoi|      for a word. And the future Buddha, wanting to cure this talkativeness
 5 Tortoi|         king, taking the future Buddha, went to the place, surrounded
 6 Tortoi|        fallen here?"~The future Buddha thought to himself, "Long
 7 Kings | reigning in Benares, the future Buddha returned to life as his
 8 Kings |         closed!~Then the future Buddha thought, "It cannot be from
 9 Skin  | reigning in Benares, the future Buddha was born one of a peasant
10 Skin  |        to be an ass, the future Buddha pronounced the First Verse:~"
11 GeNote|        with the name of Gautama Buddha. As the influence of his
12 GeNote|     could be interpreted of the Buddha by representing them as
13 GeNote|        Thus, by identifying the Buddha with the heroes of all folk-tales
14 GeNote|     instincts of men.~In making Buddha the centre figure of the
15 GeNote| traceable to the plan of making Buddha the central figure of India
16 GeNote|         Decameron, ten tales of Buddha's previous births, told
17 GeNote|   ATAKAS, or Birth-Tales of the Buddha, was carried over to Ceylon,
18 GeNote|        Present," an incident in Buddha's life which calls up to
19 GeNote|      each story of the past the Buddha identifies himself, or is
20 GeNote|       or previous births of the Buddha.~Some of the Jatakas bear
21 GeNote|         existed in India before Buddha and independently of the
22 GeNote|         pre-incarnations of the Buddha. This collection of the
23 GeNote|     these, with the omission of Buddha as the central figure. There
24 GeNote|  associated with the life of St Buddha, who has been canonised
25 StNote|     Kybises - i.e., Kasyapa the Buddha - c. 50 A.D., was adapted
26 StNote|  Rhys-Davids, pp. 315 - 21. The Buddha this time is the Genius
27 StNote|        was probably told before Buddha, over two thousand years
28 StNote|       Five Weapons, and so with Buddha himself, by supposing the
29 StNote|    celebrated metempsychoses of Buddha is that detailed in the
30 StNote|          ii. 336), in which the Buddha, as a hare, performs a sublime
31 StNote|      easy to understand how the Buddha became identified as the
32 StNote|        known how the worship of Buddha's foot developed in later
33 StNote|     less than an incarnation of Buddha. Among the Karens of Burmah,
34 StNote|      identifies the Brer Rabbit Buddha with the hare in the moon.
35 StNote|      the hare in the moon, i.e. Buddha - is not altogether swallowed
36 StNote|   Bodhisat is not precisely the Buddha himself but a character
37 StNote|       so may be called a future Buddha.~