About the book: 2018 / Jatakas are the brightest work of ancient Indian literature that has come down to our times as part of the Pali Buddhist canon “Tipitaka”. The Jatakas include a variety of fabulous, moral and instructive plots and spiritual nature, united together by both the general line of the author’s narrative and the personality of the narrator, whose role is played by the founder of Buddhism himself - Shakyamuni Buddha.