Motif
Cosmic omens confirming spiritual destiny
cosmic_omens_confirming_spiritual_destiny
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 3664-3798 confidence: high
Dwellers of ten thousand worlds behold him and proclaim, “Surely thou shalt be a Buddha”; the omens are said to match those seen in former ages when Bodhisatta sat cross-legged.
The passage lists widespread signs in weather, vegetation, gems, music, ocean, hells, celestial bodies, creatures, human conditions, and barriers, each followed by the assertion that the Bodhisatta will be Buddha.
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