Motif
Impermanence of glory after a great teacher’s death
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A motif of the Lament, Mourning, and Tragic Recognition family, within the sub-family Fate and Mortality. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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1 traditions
buddhist
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Buddhist birth stories; or, Jataka tales, Volume 1 TABLE VII. / THE BODISATS. / TABLE VIII. / THE DISTANT EPOCH.; lines 4293-4363 confidence: high
Dīpankara lives a hundred thousand years, saves multitudes, “flamed like a mass of fire,” dies with his disciples, and the text says his power and glory are “wholly gone.”
After Dīpankara’s salvific activity and death with his disciples, the passage states that his power and glory are wholly gone and asks whether all existing things are vanity.
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