Нарративные аспекты прошлой жизни (전생) в буддийских историях республики Корея и Шри-Ланки

(4) The Buddha preached to set the demoness on the first stage of the Path to Enlightenment.

(5) The Demoness stopped to eat living beings and gave advices to farmers about the weather condition. She became famous as Kali Barandhi.

4.2 The 'past birth' motif in the narrative structure

The narrative structure of "惠通降龍"(Story-1 (1) Birth: family background is unknown.

(2) Entering the priesthood: killed an otter and found the thrown bones squatting down to embrace five young otters.

(3) Studying or ascetic practice: went to Tang to be the Indian monk in China Wuwei's student, but was not allowed. After erecting with charcoal burner on his head, Wuwei accepted him.

(4) Preach Buddhism: expelled an evil dragon from the princess of the Tang Empire. The evil dragon moved to the Silla Kingdom, and he returned to his country to get rid of it.

(5) Death: not clear but he built temples where the grudges of oppressed souls were mollified. The 'past birth' motif is contextualized in the part (4) in the form of discourse spoken by character within the story. After description of evil dragon's grudge, the King Sinmun story inserted. King Sinmun's tumor on his back is attributed to Sinchung, who harbored a grudge against the king because of the king's mistake in the previous existence. The narrative structure of "The Demoness Kali" (Story-4)

(1) Start of an evil connection: killing babies of the young wife and her by the barren wife

(2) The cycle of reincarnation: the young wife and the barren wife repeat vengeance alternately through long period of reincarnation

(3) The present: the demoness and the mother of a baby (4) The Buddha preached the demoness (5) The demoness stopped to eat living beings The story starts with 'past birth' motif and the Buddha's discourse incorporate the 'past birth' into present narrative framework. Stories in the Saddharmaratnvaliya are following a patterned Buddhist story structure like as seen below. Main episode -> branch episode '1' -> branch episode '2' -> branch episode '3'… branch episode 'n' -> main episode (Paula Richman. 1988. Requote from Jewels of the doctrine) In this narrative structure 'past birth' motif is the key device to `link` episodes each other.