Consider reading two Jataka tales over two classes. One detailed Jataka, “Seeking Righteousness Devadhamma Jataka” and a short one, for example “Prince Wicked and the Grateful Animals”
Study questions for the “Seeking Righteousness Devadhamma Jataka”
1) Who is a Bodhisattva?
2) What according to the Prince Mahimsāsa is righteousness?
3) Why do you think Prince Mahimsāsa was able to recognize that the forester was a demon?
4) Why do you think the demon had the divine consent to devour the wayfarer?
5) Why did the Buddha narrate the tale of the Devadhamma Jataka? What is the point of the story?