Chitpong

After finishing the composition of 48 Preludes & Fugues Op. 2 (Episode 1, 2, 3, 4), I was missing the feeling of working toward the completion of a canonical work. It was something that I could rely on, something that I looked forward to in each day. So on 20th April 2018, I decided to start a new canonical-style music composition project. The subject matter is Buddhism’s tales of past lives of the Buddha, before he was born as Gautama Buddha in around 500 BC. The text is called ‘The Jataka Tales’. The Jataka Tales is one of the great literature in Buddhism, not because it merely accounts numerous past births of the Buddha, but because those accounts are all the portrayal of different virtues that one must have accumulated in order to be ready for the final life which attain enlightenment. Those virtues were mostly so great that one could only aspire to have, but it is those aspirations that are necessary for one to walk the path. There are 547 stories in the complete Jataka Ta