Motif
Buddha’s appearance marked by cosmic signs
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A motif of the Dream, Vision, and Altered Perception family, within the sub-family Celestial and Cosmic Signs. 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 3350-3445 confidence: high
Dīpankara appears; at conception, birth, Buddhahood, and first preaching, the ten-thousand-world universe trembles and signs appear, but Sumedha, absorbed in meditative bliss, does not hear or see them.
Dīpankara’s conception, birth, Buddhahood, and first preaching are accompanied by universal trembling, sound, and thirty-two prognostics.
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