Motif
cosmic omens confirming a spiritual destiny
cosmic_omens_confirming_a_spiritual_destiny
A motif of the Dream, Vision, and Altered Perception family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
buddhist
-
Buddhist birth stories; or, Jataka tales, Volume 1 TABLE VII. / THE BODISATS. / TABLE VIII. / THE DISTANT EPOCH.; lines 3664-3798 confidence: high
Dwellers of ten thousand worlds see him sitting and shout, “Surely thou shalt be a Buddha”; the same omens formerly seen when Bodhisatta sat cross-legged are seen again.
The proclamation of future Buddhahood is supported by many signs in weather, waters, plants, gems, music, celestial bodies, hells, visible beings, and the suspension of normal physical boundaries.
read in the book →