In The Hare's Self Sacrifice By Jataka Tales

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In 400 B.C., the Buddhist religion were written the stories that teach moral values for the humankind, and it's called Jataka tales. This is the most important Buddhist literature, and it has 500 Buddhist fables. Jataka tales are about Buddhist religion that tell tales of the Buddha’s past lives before he become the enlightened. In the beginning, the Jataka Buddhist tales were written in the Pali language, but later it was translated into many languages. The most important goal of Buddhism is to teach good lessons about Dharma and karma that could help people to escape the karmic cycle and reach nirvana. These tales have specific symbol and specific character that represent the Buddhist religion, therefore I am really intrigued by these tales, …show more content…

He goes back to his family to help provide support by giving them one golden feather a day. As story goes, his wife turns greedy and plucked all of his gold feathers. After when feather grow back, he left house, and never returned.

The moral from the Golden Goose is to learned that human beings are greedy, and most of time we don’t respect the nature.

In the Hare’s Self Sacrifice, Bodhisattva was born again as the young hare. He had three friends: monkey, and otter. He taught them the importance of keeping moral laws, observing holy days, and giving alms. As a story goes, a hare offered up his own flesh to a beggar because he had nothing else to give.

The moral of the Hare’s Self Sacrifice is to follow god and spread good lesson. If needed sacrifice own life for your goodness.

In the Monkey’s Heroic Self –Sacrifice, Bodhisattva was born again as the monkey in the Benares. He lives with many others monkeys around with delicious mango trees. As story goes, the King of Benares found that mango fruits taste delicious, and when there to eat more fruits with his soldiers. Later, when the king and his guards sleeping, and other monkeys from mango tree come and eat all mangoes from tree. After when King wake up he couldn’t saw any mangoes at tree, but he saw Bodhisattva in tree. King threated that if he came tomorrow morning he will bring more soldiers and kill all monkey. The Bodisattva

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