30. The Story of the Elephant (Karuṇā)

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Born as a benevolent elephant, the Bodhisattva encounters a group of starving men lost in the desert. To save them, he flings himself off a cliff so they can eat his flesh and use his intestines as bags for water, exemplifying extreme self-sacrifice.

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