Item
The Cattle Thieves/Picking up Peas
- Title
- The Cattle Thieves/Picking up Peas
- The Illustrated Sutra of the One Hundred Parables 11
- Description
- en_US Adapted by Lin Liang; translated by Kristian Kildall
- Creator
- en_US Liang, Lin See all items with this value
- Contributor
- Chun-yen, Tsao
- Date
- 2016-05-09T19:54:15Z
- 2015-07
- en_US 2000
- Date Available
- 2016-05-09T19:54:15Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 2000
- Abstract
- The web seems to be telling me that this is a large series, if not up to one hundred. Here is Volume 11, with two stories to offer. A statement from the editor at the rear of the book makes clear that these parables come from Buddha and speaks of forty stories in twenty volumes. A preface makes clear that these are "scriptural tales." The first story seems overly simple. People steal a cow, are apprehended, lie, and soon confess. The second story sounds to a person who knows the Aesopic tradition like a familiar tale, but this different tale has a monkey stealing peas, losing one, putting down all the others to find the one, In the meantime, chickens and ducks gobble up his other peas. He is still searching in vain for his one pea. Of course, he ends up losing all of his peas. Now I want to go after the whole twenty-book series! Will that be like an endless search the peas I have lost?
- Identifier
- 10750 (Access ID)
- Language
- eng
- Publisher
- en_US Foguang Cultural Enterprise Co
- en_US Taiwan
- Subject
- en_US PZ10.84.L56Cat 2000 See all items with this value
- en_US Buddhist See all items with this value
- en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value
- Type
- Book, Whole
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection Books