Is it possible to attain nibbana in the deva or brahma realms?

[RobertK]

@Mike_King

I take as a starting point the opinion of many scholars and translators that the Jataka was written after the death of the Buddha and not based on his discourses, so therefore interpolation.

That is pure opinion of those “scholars”. Why would anyone take their speculations over the ancients, the Sangha, the great arahat Bhikkhus who preserved the Tipitaka and Commentaries.

It would be good to read this

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