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Book: What the Buddha Thought

Chapter: The Buddha as Satirist; Brahmin Terms as Social Metaphors

DOI: 10.1558/equinox.19112

Blurb:

Buddhist popular literature regularly presents brahmins in a most unfavourable light. The Vessantara Jåtaka,1 the account of the Buddhaís last birth on earth before this final one, is probably the best-known story in the entire Theravada tradition, and has been important in other Buddhist traditions too.

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