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Statements
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Translation by I-ching: 4th year of Ching Lung (景龍), T'ang dynasty (唐) (A.D. 710) in Ta-chien-fu Monastery (大薦福寺).1 (English)
poisonous serpent (Three Poisons) (English)
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And below there was a poisonous serpent. (English)
下有毒龍 (Japanese)
five drops of honey (five strands of desire) (English)
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The tree roots had in them the honey of bees, five drops of which fell into his mouth. / The dripping honey is a metaphor for the five desires (taste, touch, smell etc) (English)
樹根蜂蜜，五滴墮口，樹搖蜂散，下螫斯人，野火復來，燒然此樹。 (Chinese)
勝光王 (Chinese (zh))
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勝光王 (Chinese)
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TAISHO TRIPITAKA / T0217, The Parable Sutra, Charles Patton, pdf (English)
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There is an Eastern fable, told long ago, of a traveller overtaken on a plain by an enraged beast. [...] The traveller sees this and knows that he will inevitably perish; but while still hanging he looks around, sees some drops of honey on the leaves of the twig, reaches them with his tongue and licks them. [...] (English)
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Lancaster, Lewis R. Korean Buddhist canon : a descriptive catalogue / Lewis R. Lancaster, in collaboration with Sung-bae Park. Berkeley : University of California Press, c1979.
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McMahan, David L., Rethinking meditation : Buddhist practice in the ancient and modern worlds / David L. McMahan. New York, , NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, [2023] BQ5612 .M36 2023
Taisho 217
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8 / Secularism and the Ethic of Appreciation / “Appreciate Your Life”: Strawberries and the Ethic of Appreciation / There exist, [...] The Buddhist one is in the Lalitavistara, a fourth-century Sanskrit account of the life of the Buddha, from which it was incorporated into a Chinese sūtra (Taisho 217). In this text, the man is chased by an elephant instead of a tiger, he falls into a well instead of off a cliff, and two rats, rather than mice, nibble the vine. (English)
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WWW Database of Chinese Buddhist texts
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8 / Secularism and the Ethic of Appreciation / “Appreciate Your Life”: Strawberries and the Ethic of Appreciation / There exist, [...] The Buddhist one is in the Lalitavistara, a fourth-century Sanskrit account of the life of the Buddha, from which it was incorporated into a Chinese sūtra (Taisho 217). In this text, the man is chased by an elephant instead of a tiger, he falls into a well instead of off a cliff, and two rats, rather than mice, nibble the vine. (English)