Motif
didactic past-life identification
didactic_past_life_identification
A motif of the Sacred Knowledge and Wisdom family, within the sub-family Wisdom Teaching and Moral Instruction. 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 DISTANT EPOCH. / GLORY BE TO THE BLESSED, THE HOLY, THE ALL-WISE ONE. / BOOK I. / END OF THE STORY ON HOLDING TO THE TRUTH.; lines 7996-8036 confidence: medium
The Teacher forms the Jātaka connection: the page who broke the stone was the brother without perseverance, the other men were attendants on the Buddha, and the caravan leader was the Teacher himself.
After telling the story, the Teacher maps figures in the past episode to present religious figures and the Buddha himself.
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