born-from-inanimate-object

Bulgasari · salience 0.95

“In the most commonly told version, the creature's origin is tied to a period of hardship for Buddhist monks, sometimes framed against a historical persecution of Buddhism, during which a monk or a household of monks is said to have shaped a small figure out of rice grains, or in some tellings rice paste or cooked rice, either as a plaything or as an offering.”