That is correct, Gad.
- But that is not what you wrote earlier: “It is said that King Sudoddhana (the father of Lord Buddha) attained the anagami stage by listening to a jataka.”
For the benefit of anyone not aware of this:
A “Jataka story” is an account of the previous life of the Bodhisatta while he was fulfilling “paramita” to attain Buddhahood. As Gad stated in his last comment, they describe how to live a moral life and realize that even to attain Arahanthood, one must start at some point.
- However, many of those accounts have been poorly translated. Thus, discussing such translations can just waste our time.
- More information in “Pāramitā and Niyata Vivarana – Myths or Realities?“
