Ja 71 — The Story about the Temple Tree

English translation by Bhikkhu Sujato.

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Stories of Past Lives 71
The Book of the Ones
The Warding Tree
The Warding Tree: a past life story
Whoever wishes to do afterwards
tasks they should have done before,
like the one who broke a branch off the Warding Tree,
afterwards is tormented by regrets.