Stories of the Buddha pen and ink portraits

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this piano masterpiece is reprinted here from the authoritative Franz Liszt-Stiftung edition published by Breitkopf & Härtel

Stories of the Buddha pen and ink portraitsOne of the most important texts in the literature of Buddhism, the Jtaka contains stories that celebrate the previous lives of the Buddha. The future Buddha may appear in these "jtakas" as a king, an outcast, a god, an elephant but in whatever form he takes, he exhibits some virtue which the tale then proceeds to inculcate in the reader. This superb selection of 47 stories of the Buddha among them "The Bar of Gold Jtaka," "The King's Lesson Jtaka,"