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SN 30.17-46

SN 30.17-46 How Giving Helps to Become Womb-Born, Etc.

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SN 30.17-46 - How Giving Helps to Become Womb-Born, Etc.
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Linked Discourses 30.17–46
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.