Jataka Analysis: Dharma from the Mouth of a Dog

Abstract

The article on ‘Jataka analysis: Dhamma from the mouth of a dog aims to demonstrate the Dhamma from the Jatakas which has the dog to play an important role of the Jataka story in Buddhism. There is a documentary study from texts and research works and present into the form of an academic article. In the study of ‘Kukkura Jataka’ and ‘Mahosatha Jataka,’ there were the Jataka story in Buddhism which were the framework for demonstrating morals and explaining Buddhism. In these stories, a dog was played the role for stories’ explanation, it was therefore called ‘Dharma from the Dog's Mouth’, which aimed to promote ethics that will result in new behavior and ethics as the dogs as protagonists of the story under the framework of Dhamma with the dog appearing in basis of the Jataka story. The body of knowledge is that the two Jataka stories concerns with the dogs which both reflect knowledge based on wisdom as guidelines for solving problems correctly and ethically.