Southern branch

[mkapstei at UCHICAGO.EDU]

A version of the story also occurs in the Taoist classic,
the Liezi, and is translated in Arthur Waley's
_Three Ways of Thought in Ancient China_.

A Tibetan Buddhist version, on which I have worked,
was an important teaching story of the Shangs-pa
bka'-brgyud tradition. They were definitely drawing
on an Indian Buddhist source, but one that
I've not yet identified.

Matthew T. Kapstein
Numata Visiting Professor of Buddhist Studies
The University of Chicago Divinity School

Directeur d'études
Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris