{"product_id":"9780834826014","title":"Buddhist Animal Wisdom Stories","description":"Around  the beginning of the common era, Indian Buddhists began to collect fables, or  jataka tales, illuminating various human virtues and foibles—from kindness,  cooperation, loyalty and self-discipline on the one hand to greed, pride,  foolishness, and treachery on the other. Instead of populating these stories  with people, they cast the animals of their immediate environment in the  leading roles—which may have given the tales a universal appeal that helped  them travel around the world, surfacing in the Middle East as Aesop's fables  and in various other guises throughout East and Southeast Asia, Africa, Russia,  and Europe.        Author  and painter Mark McGinnis has collected over forty of these hallowed popular  tales and retold them in vividly poetic yet accessible language, their original  Buddhist messages firmly intact. Each story is accompanied with a beautifully  rendered full-color painting, making this an equally attractive book for  children and adults, whether Buddhist or not, who love fine stories about their  fellow wise (and foolish) creatures.","brand":"Shambhala Publications, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47070163992816,"sku":"9780834826014","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780834826014_p0.jpg?v=1763825017","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780834826014","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}