[Buddha-l] Re: Men and women of good family

[Vicente Gonzalez]

jkirk wrote:

j> I now think I understand what you were getting at, Vicente: did the ancient
j> texts offer any examples where filiality was transgressed because its object
j> was a moral transgressor?

yes, it is. Thanks for summarize so well my question.

j> For possible evidence for India, see the Manava
j> Dharma-shastra.--- Ma¯navadharmasŽa¯stra. English.
j> _The laws of Manu_ , translated by Wendy Doniger with Brian K. Smith.
j> London & New York: Penguin, 1991.
j> And there's the peculiar jataka where the bodhisattva, Vessantara,
j> transgresses reciprocal filiality toward wife and children in order to show
j> compassion toward a faux person (really Indra who's testing the bodhisattva)
j> who asks for them. Here, the moral of the story transgresses filiality in
j> favor of compassion, no matter what the personal or social preferences might
j> be.

good. That's really useful. Still more if it was a moral test.

thanks again,