The Buddha in the Tarot by Paul Greer

Author:Paul Greer
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
ISBN: 9781542598101
Published: 2017-06-25T04:00:00+00:00

At the end of many years he sat there, says Asvaghosa, with “only skin and bone remaining, with his fat, flesh and blood entirely wasted.”6 His body, according to the Jataka account, “became emaciated to the last degree … and became black.”7 According to the Buddha himself, his ribs stuck out like the “crazy rafters” of an old barn, and the skin of his belly was fixed to his backbone.8 Yet, despite all his efforts, Siddhattha seemed no closer to fulfilling the bodhisattva vow he made when he first left the palace – to “save the world of gods and men.”

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