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Around the beginning of the common time, Indian Buddhists started out to gather fables, or jataka stories, illuminating various individual virtues and foibles - from kindness, co-operation, devotion and self-discipline on the main one hand to greed, delight, foolishness, and treachery on the other. Instead of populating these experiences with people, they cast the pets or animals of their immediate environment in the leading roles - which may have given the stories a universal appeal that helped them travel around the world, surfacing in the centre East as Aesop's fables and in various other guises throughout East and Southeast Asia, Africa, Russia, and European countries. Writer and painter Symbol McGinnis has gathered over 40 of the hallowed popular stories and retold them in vividly poetic yet accessible terminology, their original Buddhist announcements firmly intact.
