This week I will be covering Twenty Jataka Tales by Noor Inayat,
link. This post will cover Part A.
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| Image depicting many Jataka Tales, from Wikipedia |
- These stories again are replacing humans with animals. I still find it odd that the Asian religions (to me at least) are the only ones who regularly do this.
- I don't know who is morally right in this first story, the monkeys or the men. Both want the fruit only for themselves.
- All of these animals seem to be choosing chiefs who are the greatest of their kind, and then these chiefs impart lessons to the human kings in their sacrifice.
- This story of the Deer and the King reminds me of Baka and the villages under his control.
- I'm just wondering how many animals had to die so that each King could learn every lesson they needed to.
- Also, if you actually met someone as morally righteous as the characters in these stories, they would likely be the most obnoxious person imaginable.
- I have read some of these stories in others collections of short stories for this class, I thought I was having deja vu until I realized it.
- These stories do make good replacements for parables, I suppose it is easier to keep people engaged with stories of animals than kings and peasants.
- I do not understand why the leaders in this story attempt to trick their followers into doing bad things, maybe it is to show their moral superiority and intelligence.
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