菩薩從兜術天降神母胎說廣普經 4.15
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4.15
At that time, the Bhagavat, wishing to demonstrate the destinies to which consciousness goes—consciousness oriented toward the Path, mundane consciousness, conditioned consciousness, unconditioned consciousness, defiled consciousness, undefiled consciousness, flower-consciousness, fruit-consciousness, retributive consciousness, non-retributive consciousness; consciousness of devas and nāgas; consciousness of ghosts, spirits, asuras, garuḍas, kiṃnaras, mahoragas, humans, and non-humans; reaching upward to the consciousness of the twenty-eight heavens and downward to the consciousness of the Hell of No Rescue. At that time, the Bhagavat, right within the womb, manifested interlinked fetal skeleton bones, filling the great trichiliocosm. The Buddha said to Asita: "Can you discern the consciousness of these skeleton bones?"
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