Perhaps the most familiar scriptural source for the moral cause of leprosy in medieval Japan was the Lotus Sutra, which teaches that anyone who blasphemes the Buddha’s teachings, “shall get white leprosy.” Moreover, “His teeth shall be far apart and decayed, he shall have ugly lips and a flat nose, his arms and legs shall be crooked, his eyes shall be pointed and the pupils out of symmetry, his body shall stink, he shall have sores running pus and blood, his belly shall be watery and his breath short; in brief, he shall have all manner of evil and grave ailments” (Hurvitz 2005, 309; t no. 262, 9.62a16–23)
Farewell.
Submitted August 29, 2017 at 10:51PM by Shuun http://ift.tt/2vpfQwJ
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