SN 56.120–122Dying as Animals and Reborn as Humans
Pāli / Sanskrit:Tiracchānamanussanirayādisutta
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– Chapter 56: Connected Discourses on the Truths
– XI: The Chapter on the Five Destinations
56.120–122. The Five Destinations
Vi-n 1-2-3.…
Vi-n 4—In the same way, bhikkhus, fewer are the beings who, after dying in the animal realm, are reborn as human beings. More numerous are the beings who, after dying in the animal realm, are reborn in hell … in the animal realm … in the realm of hungry ghosts.
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This collection was translated into Vietnamese by the Venerable Thích Minh Châu and published by Vạn Hạnh Monastery in the early 1980s. Later, as part of the translation and publication program for the Vietnamese Buddhist Canon, it was republished in 1993 and assigned volume numbers 12 to 16.
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