History of Vessandâr: the jâtaka of the generous king

History of Vessandâr, the jâtaka of the king generous , is the title of a book of Gerard Groussin (ISBN 2842681290.

The Jâtaka S , tales marvellous telling the 547 former lives of the historical Buddha Gautama, constitute the popular aspect of the Buddhist Littérature crowned. Last ten, intended to illustrate principal the Virtue S whose Abnegation and Generosity, are very known the faithful ones.

However, the history of Vessandâr, this King which to try to reach the saving illumination, do not hesitate to give its own family, are without the most famous question and that of which there exist the most alternatives in the various languages of the countries is practiced the Bouddhisme known as Small Vehicle.

This work is a free adaptation of a corpus translated of faded into Khmer by Gnok Thaém (1903 - 1975) and a certain number of anonymous Kampuchean authors.