Motif
Confrontation with Mara as bondage and Death
confrontation_with_mara_as_bondage_and_death
A motif of the Initiation and Transformative Ordeal 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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Vinaya Texts, Part I: The Patimokkha, The Mahavagga I-IV (Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 13) FIRST KHANDHAKA. / IOO MAHAVAGGA. I, 6, 36. / I IO MAHAVAGGA. I, 8, 4. / I, 9, 4. ADMISSION TO THE ORDER OF BHIKKHUS. I I I; lines 5992-6112 confidence: medium
Mara approaches and says the Buddha is bound by human and divine fetters; the Buddha replies that he is delivered from all such fetters and that Death is struck down.
Mara claims the Buddha is bound by fetters and will not be delivered, while the Buddha replies that he is delivered and addresses Mara as Death struck down.
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