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SN 30.17-46

How Giving Helps to Become Womb-Born, Etc.

Jalābujadānūpakārasutta

from: 1. Phoenixes

How Giving Helps to Become Womb-Born, Etc.

At Sāvatthī.

Seated to one side, that mendicant said to the Buddha:

“Sir, what is the cause, what is the reason why someone, when their body breaks up, after death, is reborn in the company of the womb-born phoenixes … moisture-born phoenixes … or spontaneously-born phoenixes?”

(Tell all in full.)

The Linked Discourses on phoenixes are complete.

Translation: German (Ayyā Sabbamittā), English (Bhikkhu Sujato). Source: SuttaCentral / Bilara (public domain, CC0).

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