Nikaya

Where Suffering Subsides

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Chapter Two

A Flayed Woman

“Just now, reverend, as I was descending from Vulture’s Peak Mountain I saw a flayed woman flying through the air.

Vultures, crows, and hawks kept chasing her, pecking and clawing

as she screamed in pain. …” …

“That woman used to be an adulteress right here in Rājagaha. …”