{"collection":"Khuddaka Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_iti24/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_iti24","id":"suttacentral_iti24","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/iti24/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Khuddaka Nikaya"],"text":"This was said by the Buddha, the Perfected One: that is what I heard. \u201cMendicants, one individual roaming and transmigrating for an eon would amass a heap of bones the size of this Mount Vepulla, if they were gathered together and not lost.\u201d The Buddha spoke this matter. On this it is said: \u201cIf the bones of a single individual for a single eon were gathered up, they\u2019d make a pile the size of a mountain: so said the great seer. And this is declared to be as big as Mount Vepulla, higher than the Vulture\u2019s Peak in the Mountainfold of the Magadhans. But then, with right understanding, one sees the noble truths\u2014 suffering, suffering\u2019s origin, suffering\u2019s transcendence, and the noble eightfold path that leads to the stilling of suffering. After roaming on seven times at most, that individual makes an end of suffering, with the ending of all fetters.\u201d This too is a matter that was spoken by the Blessed One: that is what I heard.","title":"A Heap of Bones","tradition":"Khuddaka Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":167}