Dear Dave,

It is a book, and I'm not sure if there is an online version. I know major
University
libraries should have a copy.

Metta

Piya

On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 1:55 AM, P G Dave <pgd2507@...> wrote:

> Dear Piya,
>
> Is there a link where I can find
>
> John Garrett Jones,
> "Tales and Teachings of the Buddha"
> 1979:194 f (Appendix)
>
> with metta,
> _________________________________________________
>
> On 3/25/08, Piya Tan <dharmafarer@... <dharmafarer%40gmail.com>>
> wrote:
> >
> > Further to my remarks quoted by Nina, please let me add the following:
> >
> > The Kacchapa Jataka (J 273) belong to the genre of the most ribald of
> > tales
> > of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and Boccaccio's Decameron. It probably
> comes
> > from what is called gnomic tradition, or popular folklore, if you like.
> > The
> > Buddhists
> > retold the story probably for its popular appeal.
> >
> > I'm not sure if everyone who reads the English translation will find it
> in
> > good taste.
> > It is certainly not a canonical story.
> >
> > For those who wish to read story in English, please see
> >
> > John Garrett Jones,
> > "Tales and Teachings of the Buddha"
> > 1979:194 f (Appendix)
> >
> > which deals specifically with just this Jataka.
> >
> > Sorry for lacking enthusiasm in presenting this information early.
> >
> > Anyway, please laugh with good humour at the story, and leave it at
> that.
> >
> > With metta,
> >
> > Piya Tan
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 10:21 PM, Nina van Gorkom <vangorko@...<vangorko%40xs4all.nl>
> <vangorko%40xs4all.nl>
> > >
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Dear Dave,
> > > I think it over, but I do not like anything coarse. It also depends
> > > on my time. The message in the Jataka is that the monkey and tortoise
> > > should forget their quarrel and make up, and this message is
> excellent.
> > > We can apply it and that is so with the Jatakas, they are Dhamma to
> > > be applied in daily life.
> > > Nina.
> > > Op 24-mrt-2008, om 18:46 heeft P G Dave het volgende geschreven:
> > >
> > >
> > > > I recall on an earlier occasion Piya Tan mentioning the practice of
> > > > "Victorian scholars of yesteryears" to use Latin where they thought
> > > > the Pali
> > > > passage was "unspeakable".
> > >
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> > >
> > >
> > >
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