• နိဗာန်ဆတာ

ိ ဘယ်အရာ
ဘာကိေခ တာလဲ
နန်းြပသာဒ်လား
မိ ေတာ်လား
ဝင်းလက်ေအးတဲ့ ချမ်းသာလား
• ကိေလသာ အြဖာြဖာ
• အ ငိမ်း ကီး ငိမး် တာ နိဗာန်ပါ*
ကိေလသာ ၁၀ ပါး
1. ေလာဘ
2. ေဒါသ
3. ေမာဟ
4. မာန
5. ဒိဠ ိ
6. ဝိစိကစိ ်ဆာ ထိန ဥဒစ အဟိရိက အေနာတပ
 Guarding purity
at risk of life
Tr.Moe

Credit for cartoon # Myanmaer Gazette

• Once upon a time, • Where did a bhikkhu
there lived a bhikkhu in the live?
city of Savatthi.

• He ate his alms food daily • Where did he eat his

at the home of a lapidary. alms food?
• The lapidary and his wife
attended to the bhikkhu and
gave him his daily food as if they
were parents and he was their
son.
• It had been so for twelve years.
• Who attended to him?
• What did they give him daily?
• How did they suppose themselves?
• How many years had it been?
• One day, the bhikkhu came to the • For what did the bhikkhu come to the
house for daily alms food. house?

• The lapidary was cutting beef for • What was the lapidary doing in the
cooking in the presence of the presence of the bhikkhu?
bhikkhu.
• Coincidentally, an official of King • Who arrived there
Kosala arrived. coincidentally?
• The King had asked him to send
his ruby to the lapidary. • What did the King ask him?
• The official said, “Friend, cut and • To whom did the official say?
polish this ruby and drill a hole
in it.
Return it when finished.”
The lapidary said, • What did he say to him?
“Very well,” and took the ruby
with his blood-wetted hand. • How did the lapidary take the ruby?

Then he put the ruby on a casket and • Where did he put the ruby?
went into the house for washing his • Why did he go into the house?
hands.
• Presently, the crane, a pet of the • What kind of pet did they have?
household, thinking it was a piece • How did that pet think the ruby and
of meat, picked up the blood- what did it do with it?
stained ruby and swallowed it.

• The bhikkhu saw all that had taken

place. • What did the bhikkhu see?
• On his return to the scene,
What did he find on his return to the
the lapidary found that the ruby
scene?
was missing.
• He was much alarmed. What happened to him?
• “ Who took the ruby?”
• He asked his wife. He also asked their To whom did he ask about the ruby?
son?
• They all said “No,” to the question. What did they say to the question?
• So he thought, "It must be the • Who took the ruby did he think?
bhikkhu who took it," and consulted
the wife.

• The wife said, "My man, it has been

many years since the bhikkhu first
came for his meals. He has never
done anything wrong. The noble
bhikkhu wouldn't have taken the
ruby.”
• How many years has the bhikkhu
come for his meals to them?
• Has he done anything wrong before?

• The lapidary, however, would not

listen to the wife. • Did the lapidary listen to his wife?
• "Venerable Sir, did you take it?"
asked the lapidary again.
• The bhikkhu denied the charge,
saying, "Dayaka ', I have not taken
it."
• "Venerable Sir, there is no one here
but you. You are the only one who
could have taken it. Give the ruby
back to me,'" insisted the lapidary
aggressively.
• Did the bhikkhu deny?
• Is there anyone else except the
bhikkhu?
• What did the lapidary ask to give
back to him?
• Did the lapidary believe the
bhikkhu?
• He prepared to attack the bhikkhu. • What did the good wife say when her
husband prepared to attack the bikkhu?
• the king's slaves for not being able.But
the good wife pleaded, “My man, do
not make it our fault.

• If we become to produce the ruby, • What is more honourable than doing a

then let us be so. Becoming slaves is wrongful act against a bhikkhu?
much more honorable than doing a
wrongful act against a bhikkhu."
• The lapidary would not be persuaded.

• "Even the price of us becoming slaves

cannot match the value of the ruby," • Is becoming slaves equal to the value of
the ruby?
• Whose thought is it?
• He tied the bhikkhu's head with • Then what did he do to the
ropes, and hit it with a club. bhikkhu?
• Blood ran down from the
bhikkhu's head, ears and nose. • From what did the blood run
• The eyes nearly came out of down?
their sockets.
• The pain was so excruciating
that he fainted and fell,
unconscious.
• At that instant, the crane came and
drank the blood from the injuries.
• The angry lapidary kicked the crane.
• That one stroke of the kick killed the
crane on the spot, with its belly side
turned up.
• When the crane came, what did it
do?
• What did the lapidary do to his pet
crane?
• Why did the crane die?
• When the bhikkhu came to, he saw • What did the bhikkhu see?
the fate of the crane.
• He said, "Dayaka, please see if the
crane is dead."
• When the crane was dead, what did the
• To this the man's rejoinder was, "The lapidary say to the bhikkhu?
crane is dead. You, bhikkhu, will also
meet with same kind of death.“
• Then the bhikkhu said the truth about • Then what did the bhikkhu reply to him?
the incident thus,
• "If the crane is still alive, I would not
tell you this.
• Now that the crane is dead, I will tell
you. The crane had swallowed the
ruby."
• The lapidary cut open the crane's • What did the lapidary find in the belley
belly and found the ruby. of the crane?
• He was shocked and very afraid. • What did he do when he realized his
• He prostrated at the feet of the fault?
bhikkhu, and pleaded,
• "Venerable Sir, kindly forgive me. I did • What did he say then?
it out of ignorance."
• The bhikkhu said, 'It was not your • What did the bhikkhu reply?
fault. Nor was it my fault.
• It is the fault of the samsara vatta
dukkha? I have forgiven you." • Did the bhikkhu forgive him?
• And he continued. "Only because I
enter your house, we met with this • Why did the bhikkhu meet with this
kind of incident. incident?
• From now on, I will not go under
another person's roof and cover.
• Where won’t the bhikkhu go from now
• I will walk as my feet carry me, and on?
stand at the gates of fences for alms
food."
• He then said, "In every household, • What will the bhikkhu do if he has
there is a little food for a bhikkhu. the power of his feet?
• I have the power of my feet.
Therefore, I will go on my daily
rounds for alms food?
• Why did the bhikkhu succumb?
• Soon after, the bhikkhu succumbed
to the injuries so received, and
entered parinibbana?
• The crane was conceived in the • After that, what happened to the
womb of the lapidary's wife and crane?
born as a human being.

• The lapidary, upon death, went to • Where did the lapidary go to?
the niraya.

• The man's wife who had a respectful

opinion of the bhikkhu, upon death,
went to the realm of the heavenly • Where did the man’s wife go to?
devas.
Thank you for your
attention