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Nang Sib Song (2002)

Nang Sib Song poster
Genre
soap opera
Country
Thailand

How it feels

This Thai soap opera adapts a Southeast Asian folktale about twelve sisters and the son of one of them. It follows the story of Rathasena, who is a previous life of the Buddha.

dramaticfolkloricmoralisticmythologicaltraditionalepisodicserious

What happens

The legend of The Twelve Sisters or The Twelve Ladies, known as Nang Sip Song (นางสิบสอง) or as Phra Rot Meri (พระรถเมรี) in Thai and រឿងពុទ្ធិសែននាងកង្រី Puthisen Neang KongRei in Cambodia, is a Southeast Asian folktale, and also an apocryphal Jātaka Tale, the Rathasena Jātaka of the Paññāsa Jātaka collection. It is one of the stories of the previous lives of Shakyamuni Buddha in which Rathasena, the son of one of the twelve women, is the bodhisattva. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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