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Tissa34

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人稱 Kuṭumbiyaputta-Tissa 的一位長老,捨棄鉅額家財林居修行,其弟媳僱兇前來殺害時,他自擊斷大腿骨以證明絕不逃逸,當夜以忍受劇痛之力證得阿羅漢果。

A Thera of Sāvatthi, better known as Kuṭumbiyaputta-Tissa. He renounced four hundred million of wealth and became a monk dwelling in the forest. His younger brother’s wife sent five hundred ruffians to kill him. He begged them to spare his life for one night and broke his thigh-bone with a stone as proof that he would not attempt to escape. During the night he overcame his pain and, dwelling on his virtues, became an Arahant.⁵¹

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