Story Source: Twenty Jataka Tales by Door Inayat (1939)
The Monkey-Bridge
- king wants mango
- "your life is but little to give if in giving you secure the happiness of your people."
- "rule them through love because they are your children"
- Buddha prevents guilty dogs from being spared if it meant innocent ones were destroyed
- "eyes so full of love they did not dare touch him"
- Justice when king was trying to favor his known dogs
- all the city dogs got food and pets forever
- this sounds like an animal rights activist story
- teach the king a lesson, same turtle dying story bc he couldn't keep from talking
- feed the poor
- don't be selfish
- animal rights
- freedom lets people grow
- taking care of the elderly and family
- why are these all animals
- love won
- voices important
- Lake Manasa
- swans
The Master's Test
- humans
- test
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