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**gSjQEEmq** · 04-26-2011, 05:23 AM

I don't know what the official Theravada position is about them, but I've always thought that the one's I've read seem to be rather like morality folk/fairy tales and not necessarily spoken by the Buddha.

There's something about them here:

Excerpt:

"Many of these poems and stories come from much older sources. Some of the stories are adapted from a Hindu text, Panchatantra Tales, written by Pandit Vishu Sharma around 200 BCE. And it is probable many of the other stories are based on folk tales and other oral traditions that have otherwise been lost."

http://buddhism.about.com/od/sacredb...taka-Tales.htm

04-26-2011, 05:23 AM	#2
gSjQEEmq Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 451 Senior Member	I don't know what the official Theravada position is about them, but I've always thought that the one's I've read seem to be rather like morality folk/fairy tales and not necessarily spoken by the Buddha. There's something about them here: Excerpt: "Many of these poems and stories come from much older sources. Some of the stories are adapted from a Hindu text, Panchatantra Tales, written by Pandit Vishu Sharma around 200 BCE. And it is probable many of the other stories are based on folk tales and other oral traditions that have otherwise been lost." http://buddhism.about.com/od/sacredb...taka-Tales.htm
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