J1 Apannaka Jataka - Ogres In the Wilderness

 

MORAL
Leadership

READABILITY
Intermediate II

INTRODUCTION

Two caravan leaders travelled across the wilderness with their respective caravans. One of the caravan leaders listened to the man-eating yakkhas and threw away their drinking water in the wilderness. As a result, the entire caravan and the live-stocks were killed. But the other caravan was able to complete the journey safely. How did he do it?  

REFLECTION

Do you know?

This Jātaka story on Certainty (Apaṇṇaka Jātaka) will be among the last to be forgotten when the Dhamma disappears from the world at the end of this aeon (i.e., Kāliyuga, the age of vice and misery). 

Storyboard of Apaṇṇaka Jātaka

Read the Chinese picture book.