What Does It Mean To Be a Badly Behaved Animal? An Answer from the Devadatta Stories of the Pāli Jātakas
The many animals that appear in the Pāli <i>Jātakatthavaṇṇanā</i> often mirror human predicaments, society and language, and this has prompted largely allegorical readings of the stories. In addition, in many cases the animals are identified as past lives of important human characters, p...
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MDPI AG
2019-04-01
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| Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/10/4/288 |