The stories used for teaching that tells of the buddha's previous lives are called: jatakas.
In a short time, however, the Buddhist community developed a vast repertoire of stories about the Buddha's past lives known as Jatakas. There are 550 such stories in the Pali canon, and hundreds more in Chinese, Tibetan, and Sanskrit sources.
Jataka (Pali and Sanskrit: "Birth") Is one of the very popular stories about the Buddha's previous life preserved in all areas of Buddhism. Several Jataka stories are scattered across various sections of the Pali canon of Buddhist scriptures, including 35 groups collected for didactic purposes.
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