The 108 accounts of the life of the Buddha and his disciples in Leaves of the Heaven Tree are from a much longer collection compiled by the eleventh-century Indian poet Ksemendra. The Tibetan master Padma Chophel abridged Ksemendra’s text and simplified his classically elegant language to make them more accessible to the general reader.
In these accounts, the Buddha presents precepts well-known to all Buddhist traditions: the continuous unfolding of karma and the importance of developing wisdom and compassio…
