About the Book: The Buddhas Path to Awakening
The Buddha as man, animal, and god on the path to enlightenment. The Buddha as
man, animal, and god on the path to enlightenment. According to ancient
traditions, it takes countless lifetimes to become a Buddha. The Buddhas own
path to complete awakening was chronicled in five hundred and forty-seven
stories known as the j?takas, which underwent numerous adaptations in the
centuries after the Buddhas lifetime. In the fifth or sixth century CE, in the
region known as present-day Sri Lanka, an anonymous author wrote an introduction
to these, recounting the history of a vow that prompted