Onion and Spider: A Buddhist Dostoyevsky?

The Brothers Karamazov features a story which is remarkably similar to a popular Buddhist folktale from Japan. Did Dostoyevsky's novel featuring the spirituality of Russian Orthodox Christianity adapt a Buddhist tale into a Christian one?This story of an onion or spider actually has a complex history of translation and adaptation, involving the father of existentialism, the father of the Japanese short story, a German-American editor, and Count Leo Tolstoy.Support me on Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/thetabellionFind Gravantus on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheTabellionOr my longform writings at https://thetabellion.com/Background pixel art by: https://twitter.com/illseer