Wednesday, May 12, 2010

How does the rabbit on the moon story go?

I've hear a little bit of this story in Moon boy,Dragon Ball Z and Sailor Moon,but I'd really like to know how it goesHow does the rabbit on the moon story go?
In the Buddhist story ';艢a艣aj芒taka';, a monkey, an otter, a jackal, and a rabbit resolved to practice charity on the Uposatha, believing a demonstration of great virtue would earn a great reward.





When an old man begged for food, the monkey gathered fruits from the trees and the otter collected dead fish from the river bank, while the jackal wrongfully pilfered a lizard and a pot of milk-curd. The rabbit, who knew only how to gather grass, instead offered its own body, throwing itself into a fire the man had built. The rabbit, however, was not burnt. The old man revealed himself to be 艢akra, and touched by the rabbit's virtue, drew the likeness of the rabbit on the moon for all to see. It is said the lunar image is still draped in the smoke that rose when the rabbit cast itself into the fire.

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