Burlingame. Buddhist Parables

Today's free book is Buddhist Parables by Eugene Watson Burlingame (1922). For the table of contents, check at the bottom of this post below the image.

The book is available at Hathi Trust (I have not checked for other online sources).


Table of Contents

Chapter I. Parables from the Book of the Buddha's Previous Existences on the gratefulness of animals and the ungratefulness of man 
1. The grateful elephant
2. Grateful animals and ungrateful man
3. Elephant and ungrateful forester

Chapter II. Parables from the Book of the Buddha's Previous Existences and from the Book of Discipline, on unity and discord
4. Quail, crow, fly, frog, and elephants
5. Quails and fowler
6. Brahmadatta, Dighiti, and Dighavu
7. Dighavu and the king of Benares

Chapter III. Parables from the Book of the Buddha's Previous Existences on divers subjects
8. Two caravan-leaders
9. Vedabbha and the thieves
10. A Buddhist Tar-baby
11. Two dicers
12. Brahmadatta and Mallika
13. King Dadhivahana
14. Antelope, woodpecker, tortoise, and hunter
15. A Buddhist Henny-Penny

Chapter IV. Parables from the Book of the Buddha's Previous Existences in early and late forms
16. Partridge, monkey, and elephant
17. The hawk
18. Snake-charm
19. Dragon Jewel-neck

Chapter V. Parables from early sources on divers subjects
20. The birds
21. The monkey
22. Blind men and elephant
23. The anger-eating ogre

Chapter VI. Humorous parables from early and late sources
24. Mistress Vedehika
25. Monkey and dyer
26. How not to hit an insect
27. Monkey-gardeners
28. Boar and lion
29. Beetle and elephant

Chapter VII. Parables from various sources on death
30. Kisa Gotami
31. Patacara
32. The Heavenly Messengers
33. Upasalhaka
34. Ubbiri
35. Visakha's sorrow

Chapter VIII. Parables from the Long Discourses on the subject: "Is there a life after death?"
36. The condemned criminal
37. The man in the dung-pit
38. Time in heaven
39. The blind man
40. The woman with child
41. We cannot see the soul during life
42. Heat makes things light
43. Villagers and trumpet
44. The search for fire
45. Two caravan-leaders
46. Dung for fodder
47. Two dicers
48. Giving up better for worse

Chapter IX. Parables from Buddhaghosa's Legends of the Saints
49. Ghosaka
50. Little Wayman
51. Nanda the Elder
52. Bhadda Kundalakesa
53. Visakha's marriage
54. King Kappina and Queen Anoja
55. Khema
56. Nanda

Chapter X. Parables from early sources on the Doctrine
57. The sower
58. The Buddha and Ananda
59. The Buddha and Vakkali
60. The Buddha and the sick man
61. The snake
62. Walking on the water
63. The Beginningless Round of Existences
64. The relays
65. The Great Ocean
66. The Buddha and the herdsman Dhaniya
67. The axe in the mouth

Chapter XI. Similes and short parables from the Questions of Milinda
68. Chariot
69. Embryo and child
70. Lamp and flame
71. Milk and butter
72. Theft of mangoes
73. Fire in a field
74. Lamp under a thatch
75. Girl and woman
76. Milk and curds
77. Germ and egg
78. Seed and fruit
79. Egg and hen
80. Circle
81. Timbers and house
82. Seeds and plants
83. Clay and vessels
84. Lyre and sound
85. Fire-drill and fire
86. Burning-glass and fire
87. Mirror and reflection
88. Six Doors of the Senses
89. Men in palace
90. Man outside of gateway
91. Man in trough of honey
92. Embryo of reptiles and birds
93. Embryo of beasts of prey
94. Human embryo
95. Bliss of sovereignty
96. Bliss of knowledge
97. The great ocean
98. The gods without form
99. One quality of the lotus
100. Two qualities of water
101. Three qualities of medicine
102. Four qualities of the great ocean
103. Five qualities of food
104. Ten qualities of space
105. Three qualities of the wishing-jewel
106. Three qualities of red-sandalwood
107. Three qualities of the cream of ghee
108. Five qualities of a mountain-peak
109. Escape from a bon-fire
110. Escape from a heap of corpses
111. Escape from peril
112. Escape from mud
113. Red-hot iron ball
114. Bon-fire
115. Traveler who has lost his way
116. Fields and crops
117. Fire-sticks and fire
118. Seven Jewels of a King
119. The builder of a city is known by his city
120. So is the Buddha known by his City of Righteousness
121. Flower-shop
122. Perfume-shop
123. Fruit-shop
124. Buyer and seller of mangoes
125. Medicine-shop
126. Herb-shop
127. Ambrosia-shop
128. Jewel-shop
129. Morality
130. Concentration
131. Wisdom
132. Deliverance
133. Insight
134. Analytical Powers
135. Prerequisites of Enlightenment
136. General shop
137-162. Twenty-six similes

Chapter XII. Parables from the Long Discourses on the Fruits of the Religious Life
163. Payment of a debt
164. Recovery from a sickness
165. Release from prison
166. Emancipation from slavery
167. Return from a journey
168. Ball of lather
169. Pool of water
170. Lotus-flowers
171. Clean garment
172. Threaded gem
173. Reed, sword, snake
174. Potter, ivory-carver, goldsmith
175. Sounds of drums
176. Reflection in a mirror
177. Recollection of a journey
178. Mansion at cross-roads
179. Pool of water

Chapter XIII. Parables from the Medium-length Discourses on two kinds of herdsmen
180. Mara, the Wicked Herdsman
181-183. The Buddha, the Good Herdsman
184. The Buddha, the Good Herdsman

Chapter XIV. Parables from the Medium-length Discourses on the Pleasures of Sense
185-191. Seven Parables
185. Skeleton
186. Piece of meat
187. Torch of grass
188. Pit of red-hot coals
189. Dream
190. Borrowed goods
191. Fruit of tree
192. Creeper and tree

Chapter XV. Parables from the Medium-length Discourses on the fruit of good and evil deeds
193. Poisoned calabash
194. Poisoned cup
195. Foul-tasting medicine
196. Curds and honey and ghee and jaggery
197. Even as the sun, so shines righteousness
198. Pit of red-hot coals
199. Dung-pit
200. Tree with scanty shade
201. Tree with ample shade
202. Palace
203. Lotus-pond

Chapter XVI. Parables of the Sacred Heart of Buddha
204. On the Perfecting of the Perfections
205. On the Attainment of Enlightenment
206. Abatement of plagues at Vesali
207. The king who took upon himself the sins and sufferings
208. Boar and lion 
209. Fairy-prince and griffin 
210. Jeweler, monk, and goose
211. Rupavati
212. King Shibi and the bird
213. King Sivi and the blind beggar 
214. Subha of Jivaka's Mango Grove
215. The prince-ascetic 
216. Prince Kunala 
217. St. Brigid of Kildare
218. St. Lucy of Syracuse
219. St. Lucy of Alexandria
220. King (Richard of England) and nun

Table of Parallels