Cullanarada Jataka: 1 definition
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Theravada (major branch of Buddhism)
Source: Pali Kanon: Pali Proper Namesv.l. Cullanaradakassapa - The Bodhisatta was once a rich brahmin who, on the death of his wife, retired with his son to the Himalaya and became an ascetic. One day a girl, having been carried off by thieves, escaped from them and arrived at the ascetics but when the Bodhisatta was away. The son fell a victim to her charms and agreed to return with her to the haunts of men. She went on ahead and he was to follow, but his father, hearing of what had occurred during his absence, described to the youth the snares of household life in such a graphic way that he gave up the idea of following the girl.
The story was related in reference to a vain monk who succumbed to the wiles of a maiden of Savatthi. The girls mother used her to entice the monk to become her son in law. The Buddha warned him that in the past the same girl had tried to destroy his spiritual life (J.iv.219-24).
In the Jataka itself the Bodhisattas son is called Narada (p.222), but elsewhere (J.i.416, 417) he is referred to as Cullatapasa (probably only a descriptive title). It was in reference to the same monk that the Munika, the Udancani, the Saluka and the Aranna Jatakas were related.
Theravāda is a major branch of Buddhism having the the Pali canon (tipitaka) as their canonical literature, which includes the vinaya-pitaka (monastic rules), the sutta-pitaka (Buddhist sermons) and the abhidhamma-pitaka (philosophy and psychology).
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