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| Depiction of the Four Friends on the entrance of the Pemayangtse Monastery near Pelling in Sikkim. More about the monastery at http://anushankarn.blogspot.in/2015/03/pemayangtse-monastery-of-art-faith-and.html |
Long
long ago, there
lived four animals in a forest – an elephant, a monkey, a rabbit and a
pheasant. There arose a question, as to who was to be venerated, and they all
agreed that the oldest deserved the most respect. But who among them was the oldest?