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很久以前，古老的传说说，佛陀在最后一次转世之前经历过许多世生。他是一只为他人献出生命的鹿，是一位在沙漠中永不放弃的商人，也是一只与国王说话的狗。这是关于智慧和仁慈的古老印度故事。
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In India there is an old belief that a person lives many lives, one after another. The old stories say that the Buddha lived many lives before his last one. Sometimes he was a man, and sometimes he was an animal. In every life he tried to be wise and kind. These stories are called the Jataka tales. The Buddha told them to his followers to teach them how to live.
Long ago, when King Brahmadatta ruled in the city of Benares, the future Buddha was born into a family of merchants. When he grew up, he traveled from town to town with five hundred carts full of goods to sell.
One day he came to a great desert. It was sixty miles across, and the sand was so fine that it ran through your fingers like water. When the sun was high, the sand became as hot as burning coal. No one could walk on it during the day.
