དག་བ་དང་མ་དག་བའ་ལས་ཀྱ་རྣམ་པར་སྨན་པ་བསྟན་པའ་མད notes.152
Teaching the Ripening of Virtuous and Nonvirtuous Actions notes.152
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notes.152
152. The Tibetan for “where their hands are tightly bound behind their backs” is phyin ka log tu bcings pa. The Chinese reads 今身拱手禮佛者。死墮反縛地獄。 “Those who in this life pay respect to the buddhas by cupping the hands [this gesture refers to putting one hand on top of the other, often with one hand in a fist] will fall into the hell where both hands will be bound behind the back” (Taishō 2881, p. 1382b19–20).