Early Buddhism

The Simile of the Tortoise

Kummopamasutta

Language
Pāli
Period
Early Buddhist Texts
Tradition
Early Buddhism
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A parable of a jackal who fails to eat a tortoise who stays still, with limbs retracted, like a mendicant guarding the senses.

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