Early Buddhism

With Kokālika

Kokālikasutta

Language
Pāli
Period
Early Buddhist Texts
Tradition
Early Buddhism
Versions
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Kokālika goes to the Buddha and criticizes Sāriputta and Moggallāna. But having deliberately slandered such great monks, he dies and Brahmā Sahampati informs the Buddha he has been reborn in hell. The Buddha gives a memorable simile of the length of life in hell.

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