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Kapi Jātaka

Jātaka

苦行者の衣を身にまとった猿を見破って追い払った森の苦行者としての菩薩の物語。偽善的な比丘に関連して語られた。

Once when the Bodhisatta was living the ascetic life in the Himavā, his wife having died, a monkey came in the rainy weather to the hermitage clad in an anchorite’s robe which he had found in the forest. The Bodhisatta recognised the monkey and drove him away.

The story was told in reference to a hypocritical brother. J.ii.268 ff

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