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Describe how Buddha's teachings have been reconstructed from the stories of Sutta Pitaka.

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Buddha’s teachings have been reconstructed from the stories of Sutta Pitaka. We can mention two stories given in Sutta Pitaka some:

There is a story of how grief stricken woman comes to buddha after her son dies and pleads to buddha to raise him from death, but instead of showing some miraculous power buddha gives her a teaching of inevitability of death.
In one of the other story we find that how buddha advices a wealthy householder how to treat his servants and clansmen how to treat Samanas ( those who have renounced the world)

Thus through story as above we can reconstruct the teaching of buddhas through stories presented in Sutta Pitika.

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