法苑珠林 92.41

92.41

Then the World-Honoured One further told Saṃgharakṣita: 'The platform of flesh you saw was actually not a platform of flesh, but a person in hell. In the time of Kāśyapa Buddha, he was a renunciant who was in charge of the Saṃgha's bedding and rooms. He locked the doors of the Saṃgha's rooms, took the keys of the Saṃgha's doors, and went wandering through the four quarters, so that the Saṃgha subsequently had neither bedding nor rooms. Because of these causes and conditions, he entered hell and became a great platform of flesh, burned by fire and enduring suffering without ceasing down to the present day.'