00880nam a22001817a 4500003000400000005001700004008004100021020002300062040000800085082001900093084002500112100003000137245002200167260004100189300001600230520043900246650001300685OSt20250829111450.0250829b        |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9789390680726 (HB)  ckul  a181.043bBUR/B  2Colon Classification  aBurlingame, Eugene Watson  aBuddhist Parables  aJaipur:bHilltop Publications,c2024  axxxi, 348p.  aThis volume contains over 200 similes, allegories, parables, fables and other illustrative stories and anecdotes found in the Pali Buddhist texts and said to have been employed, either by the Buddha himself or his followers, to convey religious and ethical lessons and the lessons of common sense. The book should prove to be of interest to children and its contents should also prove thought provoking to the profoundest philosopher.  aBuddhism