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  • ある天神がクマーラ・カッサパに、蟻塚を掘り進めコブラに至るまで象徴的な障害の連続に出会うという謎かけをし、仏陀がそれを身体と阿羅漢果への道の寓話として後に解き明かす経

  • A discourse in which a deity poses to Kumāra-Kassapa a riddle about digging an anthill and encountering a series of symbolic obstacles culminating in a cobra, which the Buddha then explains as an allegory of the body and the path to Arahantship.

MN 23

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