单词 | jataka |
释义 | Jatakan. 1. Any of the various stories of the former lives of the Buddha found in Buddhist literature. Cf. birth story n. 2.In quot. 1828 (cited from a glossary) in uninflected plural form; the use of English plural inflections for some of the other items in the glossary (e.g. Sútras; cf. sutra n. 2a) indicates that Játaka is to be understood as an English lemma form. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > non-Judaeo-Christian scriptures > [noun] > Buddhist > story in Jataka1828 birth story1878 1828 Asiatic Researches 16 427 Sútras, are the principal scriptures... Játaka, treat of the actions of former births. 1876 J. Fergusson Hist. Indian & Eastern Archit. i. 88 Bas-reliefs..representing some scene or legend of the time, and..inscribed..with the title of the jataka or legend. 1951 G. De Significance of Jātakas p. xii Prof. Rhys Davids..has observed..that a typical Jātaka is one which has..an introductory episode,..the story of the past being the Jātaka proper in prose. 2015 Mānoa 27 p. xiv In the Jatakas, the bhikshus who found themselves in the presence of the Bodhisattva never went back to their old ways of ignorant living. 2. (The name of) the collection of such stories in Pali, forming part of the Buddhist canon. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > non-Judaeo-Christian scriptures > [noun] > Buddhist > part of Vinaya1834 Pitaka1836 Jataka1874 1874 Athenæum 19 Dec. 831/2 We have much pleasure in announcing that Mr. V. Fausböll, of Copenhagen,..is engaged upon a collected edition of the Pali text of the entire Buddhist Jâtaka, to be completed in five volumes. 1895 E. B. Cowell Jātaka Preface p. vii The Pāli work, entitled ‘the Jātaka’..contains 550 Jātakas or Birth-stories. 2006 S. McFarlane in C. Mun Buddhism & Peace xii. 157 The story of Nanda, the fullest version of which appears in the Jātaka. Compounds General use as a modifier, as in Jataka book, Jataka story, etc. ΚΠ 1872 V. Fausbøll in tr. Ten Jātakas Pref. p. ix The difference between the Singhalese (C) and the Burmese (B) Redaction of the Jātaka-Book. 1876 Encycl. Brit. IV. 430/1 Jātaka stories..containing..the oldest known versions of many of the nursery songs, and fairy tales, and comic stories, and fables, which are the common property of Europe in the present day. 1956 M. Wickramasinghe Buddhist Jataka Stories & Russ. Novel i. 3 There are two kinds of narratives in the Jataka Book. 2002 Jrnl. Asian Stud. 61 895 It could not be denied that the Buddha had uttered the actual verses that were preserved in the Jataka text, since these verses appeared in the Tripitaka and were therefore held as canonical. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2021; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < |
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