Past life accounts

Accounts of the difficult ascetic practices that Buddha performed in his previous lives while engaging in the conduct of the bodhisattvas. One of the twelve scriptural categories.

Tibetan: སྐྱེས་པའི་རབས། skyes-pa'i rabs

Sanskrit: jātaka

J. Hopkins: Life stories; Discourses on [Buddha's previous] births


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