Motif
immodesty causing loss
immodesty_causing_loss
A motif of the Divine Judgment and Moral Reckoning family, within the sub-family Pride, Greed, and Hubris. 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 END OF THE STORY OF THE THOROUGHBRED. / END OF THE STORY OF THE FORD. / END OF THE STORY ON CONSTANCY. / END OF THE STORY OF THE BULL WHO WON THE BET.; lines 12038-12183 confidence: high
In the Dancing Peacock frame, a luxurious monk angrily tears off his robe and lower garment, stands naked before the Teacher, is shamed by bystanders, and returns to lay life.
The Teacher says the monk’s immodesty caused him to lose the jewel of faith in the present and a jewel of a wife in a former birth.
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