www.jatakkatha.com : A collection of Buddhist Tales

Aparna · #1 (**permalink**) 06-15-2004, 06:51 PM

Hi,
Recently we have completed the first phase of our web site www.jatakkatha.com A collection of Buddhist Tales and ready for beta launch.
The Jataka tales date back to the third century BC and are considered the oldest form of story-narrating practice. Lack of literacy in those days necessitated the appointment of Jataka storytellers known as Jataka bhanakas. The Jataka bhanakas would travel far and wide to propagate the message of kindness, compassion, generosity, non-violence, self-sacrifice, charity, refrainment from greed etc. through these stories. The Buddha himself used jataka stories to explain concepts like kamma and rebirth and to emphasize the importance of certain moral values.
The Jataka tales depict the Buddha in several of his births in the form of animals. These stories, though simple, are high on moral content considered good for one's emotional, moral and spiritual health. The Buddha is the protagonist and the central character in each of these stories.
We will appreciate your comments on User Interface, Quality of Visual/Audio and some advise on how we can get kid safe site seal or stamp to promote these stories in schools and public libraries for younger kids.
Any advise or feedback will be appreciated
Thanks
Aparna
www.jatakkatha.com

gsmanzi · #2 (**permalink**) 06-15-2004, 06:59 PM

Hi! Nice and very interesting site! all works and looks ok!

have a nice day and good luck!

snowflakegirl · #3 (**permalink**) 06-20-2004, 08:39 PM

Great site, I love folk lore!
My connection is 56k and your pages and flash apps wer very slow for me. Many schools have old outdated equipment so this might be a problem, I don't know. (My site is also rather slow but few have complained).

As far as getting rated as a kid safe site I know there are several rating sites out there:

http://www.icra.org/labelv02.html
http://www.safesurf.com/

As far as getting listed in schools - well that's a lot harder. I've ben working on that for 4 years now. Last spring I emailed virtually every online elementary school teacher, librarian and webmaster one by one. I think that helped a bit but boy was it tedious!

Here's a list of school libraries.
http://www.sldirectory.com/libsf/natlibs.html#top

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