諸經要集 18.44

18.44

第二復有眾生。身體頑痺眉鬚墮落。舉身烘爛。鳥栖鹿宿人跡永絕。沾污親族人不喜見。名之癩病。何罪所致。佛言。以前世時。坐不信三尊。不孝父母。破壞塔寺。剝脫道人。斫射賢聖。傷害師長。常無返復。背恩忘義。常巧苟且。婬匿尊卑無所忌諱。故獲斯罪。

"Second, there are sentient beings whose bodies are numb and paralyzed, whose eyebrows and beards fall out, and whose entire bodies fester and rot. Where birds roost and deer bed, human footprints are forever absent. They soil their relatives, and people take no pleasure in seeing them. This is called leprosy. What sin brought this about?" The Buddha said: "In their past lives, it was due to not having faith in the Three Jewels, not being filial to their parents, destroying stūpas and monasteries, stripping religious practitioners, hacking and shooting sages, harming teachers and elders, being constantly ungrateful, turning their backs on kindness and forgetting righteousness, always cleverly taking shortcuts, and committing incest without regard for high or low. Therefore they incurred this sinful retribution."