Motif
Bodisat appearing across many kinds of embodiment
bodisat_appearing_across_many_kinds_of_embodiment
A motif of the Shapeshifter and Transformation family. 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 TABLE VI. / PLACES AT WHICH THE TALES WERE TOLD. / TABLE VII. / THE BODISATS.; lines 2939-3001 confidence: medium
Table VII is titled “The Bodisats” and introduces an analysis of how many times the Bodisat appears in different characters in the Buddhist Birth Stories.
The table enumerates the Bodisat’s appearances in many character categories, including human, divine or supernatural, and animal forms, totaling 530 appearances.
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