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The 12 pages that link to Jataka tales, each with the reason it gives.

• BodhisattvaRelated: These stories portray the future Buddha’s long development as a bodhisattva.

• Frame storyRelated: Many tales use a present occasion to introduce a story from an earlier life.

• MahabharataCompared with: Its episodic teaching form offers a useful contrast to the Mahabharata’s embedded narratives.

• FableBroader topic: Their animal narratives connect moral teaching with Buddhist ideas of rebirth.

• BuddhahoodRelated: They portray the long cultivation of virtues associated with eventual buddhahood.

• Ajanta CavesRelated: Ajanta murals depict episodes from these moral narratives.

• SanchiRelated: Several Sanchi reliefs draw on these stories to convey Buddhist teachings through narrative.

• AesopCompared with: They share didactic animal storytelling with Aesopic fables but arise from Buddhist tradition.

• BorobudurBroader topic: Jataka scenes show the earlier lives and virtues carved into Borobudur’s galleries.

• Buddhist hagiographyRelated: They use exemplary past lives to show how Buddhist virtues develop across lifetimes.

• Thai literatureRelated: Their episodes became enduring subjects for Thai sermons, poetry, murals, and drama.

• Sanchi StupaRelated: Gateway carvings depict episodes from this body of narrative tradition.