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100 1 _aBurlingame, Eugene Watson,
_d1876-1932
245 1 4 _aThe grateful elephant
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2024
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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500 _a"Twenty-six stories selected from the author's larger work, Buddhist parables."
500 _aRelease date is 2024-07-18
508 _aSusan E., David E. Brown, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)
520 _a"The Grateful Elephant" by Eugene Watson Burlingame is a collection of translated Buddhist parables written in the early 20th century. This volume includes twenty-six stories drawn from the Pāli texts, aimed at conveying moral and religious lessons, primarily emphasizing themes of gratitude, compassion, and the consequences of gratitude and ingratitude. The central character, the elephant, appears in multiple stories, portraying the virtues of loyalty and goodwill despite facing ungratefulness. At the start of the collection, the first story introduces the Grateful Elephant, who, after receiving help from a group of carpenters, dedicates his life to aiding them in return. The narrative unfolds to illustrate the elephant's selflessness and loyalty, which ultimately leads to a dramatic encounter with a king who seeks to claim the elephant for his own. As the tale progresses, themes arise around the cycles of life, trust, and the nature of gratitude, setting a tone that is not only reflective but also resonant with deeper philosophical queries about kindness and recognition of good deeds across interactions in both human and animal forms. Each story serves to enhance the moral teachings attributed to the Buddha, grounding the narrative in rich cultural and ethical insights. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cNew Haven: Yale University Press, 1923
653 _aBuddhist legends
700 1 _aLathrop, Dorothy Pulis,
_d1891-1980
856 4 _uhttps://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uva.x000983483&seq=1
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/74064
999 _c114789
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