Jataka

The "Vanarinda-jataka," No. 57, contains what I believe is the original of the "house-answering owner" droll episode in our Pampangan variant. ❋ Dean Spruill Fansler (N/A)

In the "Ucchanga-jataka" (Fausböll, No. 67, of uncertain date, but possibly going back to the third century B.C.) we are told -- ❋ Dean Spruill Fansler (N/A)

"Kacchapa-jataka," No. 273, which narrates how a monkey insulted a tortoise by thrusting his penis down the sleeping tortoise's throat, and how the monkey was punished. ❋ Dean Spruill Fansler (N/A)

"Latukika-jataka," No. 357, which tells how a quail brought about the destruction of an elephant that had killed her young ones. ❋ Dean Spruill Fansler (N/A)

With this story compare the "Palasa-jataka," No. 370, which tells how a ❋ Dean Spruill Fansler (N/A)

Two very early forms of this tale are the "Vanarinda-jataka," No. 57, which tells how the crocodile lay on a rock to catch the monkey, and how the latter outwitted the crocodile; and the "Sumsumara-jataka," No. 208, in which a crocodile wanted the heart of a monkey, and the monkey pretended that it was hanging on a fig-tree. ❋ Dean Spruill Fansler (N/A)

Buddhistic variant has been overlooked by them, -- the "Takkala-jataka," ❋ Dean Spruill Fansler (N/A)

In the "Kapi-jataka," No. 404, a bad monkey drops his excrement first on the head and then into the mouth of a priest, who later takes revenge on the monkey by having him and all his following of five hundred destroyed. ❋ Dean Spruill Fansler (N/A)

The "Mahisa-jataka," No. 278, tells how an impudent monkey voids his excrement on a patient buffalo (the Bodhisatta) under ❋ Dean Spruill Fansler (N/A)

Past life accounts (skyes-pa’i rabs, Skt. jataka) are accounts of the difficult ascetic practices that Buddha performed in his previous lives while engaging in the conduct of the bodhisattvas. ❋ L.T. Doboom Tulku (2007)

"Pancavudha-jataka," No. 55 (see Indian Fairy Tales, pp. 305 ff.), the Philippines may easily have derived it directly from India along with other Buddhistic fables (e.g., ❋ Dean Spruill Fansler (N/A)

You said: "As a buddhist, if I do not look to the sutra, jataka and vinaya for guidance where do you think I should look to? ❋ Unknown (2009)