Buddhist Birth-Stories (Jataka Tales) Nidana-Katha 1925 T.W. Rhys Davids ~ Pali Buddhist scriptures ~ lives of Gautama Buddha

Title: Buddhist Birth-Stories (Jataka Tales) / The Commentarial Introduction Entitled Nidana-Katha: The Story of the Lineage [Broadway Translations series]

Author: Translated from Prof. V. Fausboll's edition of the Pali text by T. W. Rhys Davids / New and Revised Edition by Mrs Rhys Davids, D. Litt., M.A.

Description: Boards in sand-colored cloth with red cloth spine; paste-on title blocks on spine and front cover. Light erasure and 'Net' stamped on front free endpaper, else interior clean. Many leaves unopened; a couple pages roughly opened. Dust jacket color-faded; lighty chipped at head of spine; in an archival mylar sleeve. xii + lxxx, [81]-256 pp.

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). He also took an active part in founding the British Academy and the London School for Oriental Studies. The original edition was issued in 1880.

Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Near Fine
Jacket Condition: Very Good

Publisher: London: George Routledge & Sons Ltd. | New York: E. P. Dutton & Co.
Year: 1925

Keywords: Buddhist scriptures, Gautama, Buddha,