Each story is accompanied with a beautifully rendered full-color painting, making this an equally attractive book for children and adults, whether Buddhist or not, who love fine stories about their fellow wise (and foolish) creatures. Author and painter Mark McGinnis has collected over forty of these hallowed popular tales and retold them in vividly poetic yet accessible language, their original Buddhist messages firmly intact. Instead of populating these stories with people, they cast the animals of their immediate environment in the leading roles-which may have given the tales a universal appeal that helped them travel around the world, surfacing in the Middle East as Aesop's fables and in various other guises throughout East and Southeast Asia, Africa, Russia, and Europe. From the bestselling author of Crow Planet, a compelling journey into the secret lives of the wild animals at our back door.In THE URBAN BESTIARY, acclaimed nature writer Lyanda Lynn Haupt journeys into the heart of the everyday wild, where coyotes, raccoons, chickens, hawks, and humans live in closer proximity than ever before.

Read detail book and summary below and click download button to get book file and read directly from your devices.Īround the beginning of the common era, Indian Buddhists began to collect fables, or jataka tales, illuminating various human virtues and foibles-from kindness, cooperation, loyalty and self-discipline on the one hand to greed, pride, foolishness, and treachery on the other. This Book has 112 pages and Available to download in PDF, EPUB and Kindle Format. It was published by Shambhala Publications on 09 November 2004. Summary: Buddhist Animal Wisdom Stories PDF is a Fantastic Juvenile Fiction book by Mark W.

The Urban Bestiary by Lyanda Lynn Haupt