Blood Bowl Sutra

Japanese: 血盆経 - けつぼんきょう
Blood Bowl Sutra
This small sutra, consisting of over 420 characters and included in the Dai Nihon Zozanggye, is a sutra for the purpose of saving women who have fallen into hell due to the impurity of blood. It was widely circulated in China during the Ming and Qing dynasties, and there are versions by Buddhism, Taoism, and certain religious organizations, and although the contents differ somewhat, all of them teach that those who have committed crimes related to blood will fall into the blood pond hell, whereas the Japanese version of the Blood Pond Sutra says that only women who have defiled earth gods or water gods with blood from childbirth or lunar water will fall into this hell.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:
大日本続蔵経に《仏説大蔵正経血盆経》と題して収められている全420余字からなる小経で,血の穢(けが)れゆえに地獄へ堕ちた女人を救済せんがための経典である。中国では明・清の時代にかなり広く流布していたもので,仏教,道教,ある特定結社のものなどが存在しており,内容も多少異なっているが,いずれも血にかかわる罪を犯した者は血の池地獄に堕ちると説かれているのに対し,日本の《血盆経》には,産や月水の血で地神,水神等を穢した女性のみが,この地獄に堕ちるとされている。

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