Motif
Animal Bodhisattva bears an unmatched burden
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A motif of the Sacrifice and Offering 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 END OF THE STORY OF THE THOROUGHBRED. / END OF THE STORY OF THE FORD. / END OF THE STORY ON CONSTANCY. / END OF THE STORY OF THE BULL WHO WON THE BET.; lines 11495-11629 confidence: high
At Jetavana, after the Double Miracle and Descent from Heaven, monks praise the Tathāgata’s unequalled power; the Teacher says that in a former animal birth no one else could drag the weight he dragged.
The Teacher frames the story as a former animal birth in which he alone could drag a weight others could not; in the tale, the bull drags five hundred carts that other bullocks cannot move.
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