經律異相 48.25

48.25

Formerly, on the Snowy Mountains, there was a pigeon. At that time, it snowed heavily. A person lost his way and was in dire distress and exhaustion; hunger and cold came upon him simultaneously, and his life hung in the balance. The pigeon flew to seek fire, gathered firewood for him, and lit it. When the fire was blazing, it threw its body into the fire to give it as a gift to this starving man (taken from the Mahāprajñāpāramitopadeśa, Fascicle 11).