檢視 Jatakamala 本生鬘的原始碼

[[Image:Buddha Jataka.jpg|frame|Buddha surrounded by images from the Jatakamala]]
'''Jatakamala''' ([[Wyl.]] ''skyes rabs 'phreng ba'') - 'The Garland of Birth Stories' by the master [[Arya Shura]] describes 34 of [[Buddha Shakyamuni]]'s previous lives.

#The Tigress
#Shibhi
#The dumpling
#The Merchant
#Avishahya, the Merchant
#The hare/rabbit
#Agastya
#Maitribala
#Vishvamtara
#The sacrifice
#Shakra
#The brahmin
#Unmadayanti
#Suparaga
#The lord of the fish
#The young quail
#The jar full of spirits
#The man without an heir
#The lotus stalks
#The royal treasurer
#Kuddhabodhi
#The king of geese
#Bodhi, the wandering ascetic
#The great ape
#The ibex
#The antelope
#The king of monkeys
#Kshantivadin
#The inhabitant of highest heaven
#The elephant
#Sutosama
#Ayogriha, the prince in the iron house
#Buffalo
#Woodpecker

It is said that Arya Shura planned to write 100 stories, ten to illustrate each of the [[ten paramitas]]. This project was later taken on by the 3rd [[Karmapa]] [[Rangjung Dorje]], who wrote several works on the text, including an expansion to 100 tales.

==Translations==
*Ārya Śūra, ''Once the Buddha Was a Monkey'', translated by Peter Khoroche, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989
*Āryaśūra, ''The Marvelous Companion: Life Stories of the Buddha'', Dharma Publishing, 1983
*Āryaśūra, ''Garland of the Buddha’s Past Lives'', Vol. 1 & Vol. 2, translated by Justin Meiland, (Clay Sanskrit Library), NYU Press 2009

==External links==
*[http://www.lotsawahouse.org/jataka_verses.html Verses on the Buddha's Previous Lives (A Summary of the Jatakamala) by Arya Shura]

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