[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Buddhist Sanskrit literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit) › [Mahāyāna sūtras](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra) › [Doctrinal sūtras](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.dharma) › [Dharmaskandha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.dharma.dharmaskandha) › [འཕགས་པ་ཆོས་ཀྱི་ཕུང་པོ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.dharma.dharmaskandha*bo) › [The Sections of Dharma](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.dharma.dharmaskandha*bo~en-84000) › 9 # འཕགས་པ་ཆས་ཀྱ་ཕང་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 9 The Sections of Dharma 9 - **Language:** English ### [9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.dharma.dharmaskandha*bo~en-84000.9) Will they sniff at its stench or not?” “O Blessed One, certainly not!” exclaimed Śāriputra. The Blessed One then asked venerable Śāriputra, “So what do you think, Śāriputra? If someone touched²³ the corpse of that dog, if he shook it, if he enjoyed himself with it, would he be praised by many people?” “Such a person would be difficult even to look at—how could he ever be praised?” replied venerable Śāriputra. The Blessed One then said to venerable Śāriputra, “Śāriputra, the thus-gone ones might praise the person who embraces, shakes, and enjoys himself with that dog’s corpse. However, they would not praise a person who, even with just his toe, touches a woman, even if she is the beauty of the land, sixteen years old, an excellent woman, with a beautiful form, who is lovely to behold, with delightful full breasts, adorned with jewelry, youthful, pleasant to touch, and free of disease. Śāriputra, a person who touches such a beauty of the land with even just his toe is despicable, unlike the one who embraces, shakes, and enjoys himself with that dog’s corpse. Śāriputra, what do you think about this? By embracing or touching a dog’s corpse, will sentient beings end up being born in the hell realms?” “No, Blessed One, they will not.” “Śāriputra, monks must develop the perception of the faults of the sense pleasures in the following way. Śāriputra, how should monks develop the perception of the faults of the body? Śāriputra, this body is very harmful and troublesome. - [Previous: 8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.dharma.dharmaskandha*bo~en-84000.8) - [Next: 10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.dharma.dharmaskandha*bo~en-84000.10) ## Linked texts (1) - [འཕགས་པ་ཆོས་ཀྱི་ཕུང་པོ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.dharma.dharmaskandha*bo.9) — Classical Tibetan --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.dharma.dharmaskandha*bo~en-84000.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.dharma.dharmaskandha*bo~en-84000.9) · Pramāṇa