法苑珠林 92.43

92.43

'The room of flesh you saw was a person in hell. In the time of Kāśyapa Buddha, he was a renunciant who occupied a room of the Saṃgha, treated it as his own property, and never relocated throughout his whole life, rather than assigning rooms in sequence according to the Vinaya. Therefore, he became a great room of flesh, burned by fire and enduring suffering without ceasing down to the present day.'