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sinners. The Prodigal Son is the third and final parable of a cycle on redemption, following the parables of the Lost Sheep and the Lost Coin. In the Revised

The parable of the arrow (or 'Parable of the poisoned arrow') is a Buddhist parable that illustrates the skeptic and pragmatic themes of the Cūḷamālukya

original on 2017-09-24. Retrieved 2018-08-27. Wayman, Alex (1922). Buddhist Parables. Motilal Banarsidass. p. 158. ISBN 9788120807389. Archived from the

set of teachings. The Buddha used two parables to clarify this point, the 'Parable of the raft' and the Parable of the Poisoned Arrow. The Dharma is like

was said to be a sign of impending rain. The Shasekishū, a book of Buddhist parables from the Kamakura period, makes a point of distinguishing between

fiction from the 1930s and [1940s], pre-modern travel literature and Buddhist parables, and Japanese folklore and ghost stories". Ryan Holmberg calls this

be equally true. The parable originated in the ancient Indian subcontinent, from where it has been widely diffused. The Buddhist text Tittha Sutta, Udāna

Steger compares the current study of globalization to the ancient Buddhist parable of blind scholars and their first encounter with an elephant. Similar

Hill. pp. 11460–11463. OCLC 3648354 – via Google Books. "A Buddhist Tar-Baby". Buddhist Parables: Translated From the Original Pāli by Eugene Watson Burlingame

needs of their disciples. This concept of Buddhist pedagogical strategies is often explained through parables or allegories. In the Lotus Sūtra, the many