Linked Discourses 30.17–46
- 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.