Accompanied by Intizar Hussain, Asif Farrukkhi reads out a tale from his Urdu translation of the Jatakas at T2F on Tuesday evening.–Photo by White Star KARACHI: Eminent writer Intizar Hussain and ...

The Ramayana story reveals the Vedic world that thrived in the Gangetic plains between 1,000 CE and 500 CE, though the story itself came to be written between 200 BCE and 200 CE. Buddhist Jataka tales ...

Featuring lonely elephants, smart fish and a host of other animals, this anthology of 25 stories inspired by Indian folktales carries quiet lessons ...

Jataka tales are the stories narrated by Mahatama Buddha for his followers, especially those who lived as ascetics. These tales have been drawn from famous legends concerning the reincarnations of the ...

You might have heard, read or narrated the story of a woodpecker and an ungrateful lion from the Jataka Tales. Or the one about a crooked heron and a smart crab from The Panchatantra. Or, maybe, the ...

In literary, as well as in common usage in Sinhala, the word vahanse added as a suffix to a noun denotes reverence, respect, or sanctity, eg. Bodhinvahanse, Swameenvahanse. Sometimes it is used even ...

The High Commission of India in Colombo on 09 March distributed 500 copies of the Sinhala translations of five Amar Chitra Katha Jataka Tales comic books to mark the Medin Full Moon Poya Day, the ...

Buddhist paintings are a significant feature in Sri Lankan heritage. Ever since Buddhist art and architecture began to flourish after the introduction of Buddhism in the 3rd century BC, the artists ...

India Book House has sold the mobile and digital rights for Amar Chitra Katha to Hungama Mobile, a mobile entertainment firm. MUMBAI: Mythology is defined as a body or collection of myths, belonging ...

The teachings of the Buddha have contained both doctrine and stories. Buddhism has traditionally been taught by monks in societies that have been illiterate. Most people could not read the scriptures.

The image behind this saying is simple: a monkey moving from branch to branch, trying to grab every fruit it sees, may end up enjoying none fully. In chasing every possibility, it loses the chance to ...