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Tales and Teachings of the Buddha
Originally published in 1979, Tales and Teachings of the Buddha by Garrett Jones aims to further the work done by scholars like Gombrich, Spiro and Tambiah in their field studies of lay Buddhism in Sri Lanka, Burma and Thailand. But whereas they highlight the syncretistic mix of imported Buddhist with indigenous animistic beliefs, Tales and Teachings demonstrates that within the Buddhist tradition itself there is, in the immensely popular Jâtaka tales, a vast fund of folkloric material that is much more congenial to the average layman than the more austere teaching found in the canon proper.
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