Nikaya

Where Suffering Subsides

Numbered Discourses 5.115

  1. At Andhakavinda

Stingy

“Mendicants, a nun with five qualities is placed in hell as if delivered there.

What five?

She is stingy with dwellings, families, material things, praise, and the teaching.

A nun with these five qualities is placed in hell as if delivered there.

A nun with five qualities is placed in heaven as if delivered there.

What five?

She is not stingy with dwellings, families, material things, praise, or the teaching.

A nun with these five qualities is placed in heaven as if delivered there.”