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Starting from the original parable, different versions of the story have been written, which are described in books and on the internet under titles such as The Taoist Farmer, The Farmer and his Horse, The Father, His Son and the Horse, The Old Man Loses a Horse, etc. The story is mostly cited in philosophical or religious texts and management ...
Tashi began his training as a Buddhist monk at the age of five. Twenty years later, he emerges from a three-year solitary meditation, for which he is awarded the degree of khenpo by the rinpoche. When Tashi begins to have wet dreams, his relationships at the temple become strained. On an official visit, he stays with a farmer and meets Pema ...
Buddhism Sujata , also Sujātā , or Nandabala , was a farmer's wife, who is said to have fed Gautama Buddha a bowl of kheer , a milk-rice pudding, ending his six years of asceticism . Such was his emaciated appearance that she wrongly believed him to be a tree-spirit that had granted her wish of having a child.
Bhikshu Dharmamitra, trans. Marvelous Stories from The Perfection of Wisdom: 130 Didactic Stories from Ārya Nāgārjuna's Exegesis on the Great Perfection of Wisdom Sutra. Kalavinka Press, 2008. Burlingame, E.W., trans., Buddhist Legends: Translated from the Original Pali Text of the Dhammapada Commentary, 3 vols., HOS 28–30, Cambridge MA, 1921.
The Vessantara Jātaka is one of the most popular jātakas of Theravada Buddhism. The Vessantara Jātaka tells the story of one of Gautama Buddha's past lives, about a very compassionate and generous prince, Vessantara, who gives away everything he owns, including his children, thereby displaying the virtue of perfect generosity.
Rāhula (Pāli and Sanskrit) was the only firstborn son of Siddhārtha Gautama, and his wife and princess Yaśodharā. He is mentioned in numerous Buddhist texts, from the early period onward. [3] Accounts about Rāhula indicate a mutual impact between Prince Siddhārtha's life and those of his family members. [4]
Koṇḍañña is one of the 29 Buddhas of Theravāda Buddhism. He was born in Rammavati. His father was King Sunanda and his mother Sujata. He belonged to the Kondannagotta, and was twenty-eight cubits tall. For ten thousand years he lived as a layman in Ruci, Suruci and Subha. His wife was Rudidevi and his son Vijitasena.
Maya died shortly after Siddhartha was born. Śuddhodana next elevated to chief consort Maya's sister Mahapajapati Gotami, with whom he had a second son Nanda and a daughter Sundarī Nandā. Both children became Buddhist monastics. [5] At the age of 16, Siddhartha married his cousin Yasodharā, the niece of Maha Maya and Mahapajapati. Yasodhara ...