佛說佛名經 20.33
English (machine translation) 20.33
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20.33
The rākṣasa replied: 'These sinners, having received the Buddha's precepts, did not seek the unsurpassed, truly real, and wondrous Dharma, but merely looked at what was before their eyes, believing in heterodox and inverted views; arrogant, conceited, and wanton, their minds harboured malice and cruelty, and without compassion they killed and harmed sentient beings, dismembering the lineage of the Buddha. Due to these causes and conditions, they suffer such punishment. If they afterward attain human form, for hundreds and thousands of lifetimes their faculties will be incomplete: deaf, blind, mute, lacking hands or feet, their bodies covered with many sores constantly running with pus and blood; having severed the lives of others, they shall receive the retribution of a short lifespan.'
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