Motif
Bodisat as tree deity
bodisat_as_tree_deity
A motif of the World Axis and Sacred Center 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 THE BARLAAM AND JOSAPHAT LITERATURE. / SUMMARY. / PART II. / ON THE HISTORY OF THE BIRTH STORIES IN INDIA.; lines 2112-2201 confidence: medium
The passage describes stories where “the Bodisat appears as a sort of chorus, a moralizer only, and not an actor in the play,” including the Ass in the Lion’s Skin and many cases where the Bodisat is a “rukkha-devatā—the fairy or genius of a tree.”
The passage states that many stories have the Bodisat as a rukkha-devatā, glossed as a fairy or genius of a tree.
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