Buddhist Legends Vol. II

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Editor’s Note
In preparing this work for digital publication I have made a few minor changes
which I will outline here. I have occasionally added notes to the translation,
when I thought something needed explaining or a reference was occasional
missed by the translator. To distinguish them from Burlingame’s own notes
they are prefaced as ‘Ed. note:’.
The original publication quoted only the first few words of the verse(s) that the
story is attached to; it is the same in the original Pāḷi text which is being
translated. Here, though, as I think it helps to know the verse(s) in advance, I
have in most cases included a full quotation of the verse(s) at the top of the
story, except when the story is so short it hardly makes a difference.
The pagination of the translation is included in square brackets, so that for
instance [28.145] means Vol. 28 of the Harvard Oriental Series, pg. 145. The
pagination of the text of the Pāḷi Text Society is included in curly brackets. It
was released in 4 volumes, so that {2.138} means Vol. 2, pg. 138. For aesthetic
reasons I have normally placed the pagination after the title, and before the
text, though the page of course begins with the title.
There are html, pdf, epub, mobi 1 and flipbook versions of this text, but unlike
my normal practice I have not yet recorded all the audio. I am making some
recordings of the stories at present, and will update when I can.
To make the work a manageable size I have divided the eBooks into three
volumes, following the original publication scheme.
In September, 2015, I have added in the very useful Introduction by the learned
Burlingame, which greatly helps, particularly for those interested in
comparative studies.
Anandajoti Bhikkhu
September, 2015.
1 The Introduction is missing from the epub and mobi files because of the difficulty in
reproducing the tables well in those formats.