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Iti 24A Heap of Bones

Pāli / Sanskrit:Aṭṭhipuñjasutta

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Summary

In this course of transmigrating, one person would leave behind a heap of bones as large as a mountain—if there were someone to collect the bones and the collection were not destroyed.

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Full translation (English)

– So It Was Said 24

The Book of the Ones Chapter Three A Heap of Bones

This was said by the Buddha, the Perfected One: that is what I heard.

“Mendicants, one person roaming and transmigrating for an eon would amass a heap of bones the size of this Mount Vepulla, if they were gathered together and not lost.”

The Buddha spoke this matter. On this it is said:

“If the bones of a single individualfor a single eon were gathered up,they’d make a pile the size of a mountain:so said the great seer.And this is declared to beas huge as Mount Vepulla,higher than the Vulture’s Peak near the Mountainfold of the Magadhans.But then, with right understanding,one sees the noble truths—suffering, suffering’s origin,suffering’s transcendence,and the noble eightfold paththat leads to the stilling of suffering.After roaming on seven times at most,that individualmakes an end of suffering,with the ending of all fetters.”

This too is a matter that was spoken by the Blessed One: that is what I heard.

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