Friday, April 16, 2010

Buddhist Story-books for the Children




While attending a retreat at a temple, I found Gems! at their free distribution book booth.

They had a number of "Storytelling by Ven Hai Tao" which the books are dedicated to tell the stories in simplistic way to the children (and adults too!). They are simple to read to understand the morale behind the stories. However, there is one major setback in that they are printed in the more complex Chinese characters utilised by Taiwanese which may not be readable by children of other countries who are generally being taught the simpler version of Chinese characters. If they could be printed in the simpler Chinese Characters, it would make the reading easier and benefit more. Hopefully, they could reprint in the simpler Chinese character version to benefit more who read Chinese in future.

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