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The Jãtaka: "The Cheating Merchant", "The Monkey's Heroic Self-Sacrifice", And "The Hare's Self-Sacrifice"
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The Jãtaka: "The Cheating Merchant", "The Monkey's Heroic Self-Sacrifice",
and "The Hare's Self-Sacrifice"
The three jãtakas in our literature book are: "The Cheating
Merchant," "The Hare's Self-Sacrifice" and "The Monkey's Heroic Self-
Sacrifice." The jãtakas are stories about the lives of the Bo ....
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....is out looking for food and finds some in the house
of a field watcher: two spits, a lizard and a pot of milk curd. He asks
three times if anyone owns this food. No one comes forward, so he takes
the food home and thinks of how virtuous he has been. At the same time, the
monkey finds a bunch of mangoes in the jungle.
The Bodhisatta (the hare) realizes he has no food to offer beggers,
so he must sacrifice his own flesh. When Sakka (Indra, the king of gods,
who rewards those who display extraor.... |
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