Jataka tales & females
Jataka tales & females
I saw Jataka tales on Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jataka_tales, about Buddha was once a buffalo, a woody woodpecker and a quail bird. Was Buddha ever a woman or female in a past life?
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Re: Jataka tales & females
The Buddha was surely a female in a past life at some point, but there doesn't seem to be any jatakas that have him as a female anything. Although I do recall a non-theravada Sanskrit jatakas that had him as a princess or something like that.
https://www.timsthailand.com/jataka-tales-born-as/
https://www.timsthailand.com/jataka-tales-born-as/
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Re: Jataka tales & females
As far as I know, from the time of the firm assurance at the feet to the Buddha Dipaṅkara, 91 aeons ago, the Bodhisatta was always reborn as male.
Index of Jātakas.
Index of Jātakas.
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