Motive behind the Bodhisatta's Self-sacrifice in the Pannasa-Jataka : With Special Reference to Parallel Episodes in Chinese and Sanskrit Sources(Papers in Memory of the Late President Professor Dr. Egaku Mayeda)

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  • パンニャーサ・ジャータカにおける捨身 : 北伝諸文献との関連をめぐって(<特集>前田惠學先生追悼論集)
  • パンニャーサ・ジャータカにおける捨身 : 北伝諸文献との関連をめぐって
  • パンニャーサ ・ ジャータカ ニ オケル ステミ : キタデン ショ ブンケン ト ノ カンレン オ メグッテ

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In the Pannasa-jataka transmitted in central Thailand, there are as many as eight stories of self-sacrifice (ajjhattika-dana), where a bodhisatta declares that he carries out his self-sacrifice not to get the achievement of a savaka or paccekabuddha but to attain omniscience. Such declaration is rare in the Pali Nikayas or their commentaries. In the same way, parallel or similar kinds of stories in the avadanas or jatakas transmitted in Sanskrit and Chinese do not refer to the disengagement from the achievement of a savaka or paccekabuddha, with the exception of the story of Kancanasara. Since the direct source of the bodhisatta's declarations including the reference to the achievement does not seem to exist in the Pali Nikayas or their commentaries, there is a possibility that the bodhisatta's declarations found in the Pannasajataka are derived from a very old origin which is shared with the story of Kancanasara.

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