Motif
Appeal from lesser authority to supreme teacher
appeal_from_lesser_authority_to_supreme_teacher
A motif of the Sacred Knowledge and Wisdom family, within the sub-family Wisdom Teaching and Moral Instruction. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
buddhist
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Buddhist birth stories; or, Jataka tales, Volume 1 END OF THE STORY OF CHULLAKA THE TREASURER. / END OF THE STORY OF THE MEASURE OF RICE. / END OF THE STORY ABOUT TRUE DIVINITY. / END OF THE STORY ON A HAPPY LIFE.; lines 9393-9504 confidence: medium
The young nun says Devadatta is not the Buddha and asks the nuns to take her to the Master at Jetavana; they travel the forty-five leagues from Rājagaha and present the matter to him.
The young nun rejects Devadatta's authority as final and asks to be taken to the Buddha, under whom she says she entered religious life.
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