Motif
Accumulation of perfections across many births
accumulation_of_perfections_across_many_births
A motif of the Mystical Quest and Interior Journey family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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buddhist
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Buddhist birth stories; or, Jataka tales, Volume 1 TABLE VII. / THE BODISATS. / TABLE VIII. / THE DISTANT EPOCH.; lines 4995-5142 confidence: high
Among many almsgiving births, the Wise Hare sees one coming for food and offers his own self, giving up his life to acquire the Supreme Perfection of Almsgiving.
The passage repeatedly says there is no limit to the existences in which the Bodisat fulfilled specific perfections.
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