Reply To: Could bodily pain be due causes other than kamma vipaka?

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Akvan
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Hi Siebe,

you said, Nagasena also denies that the pains of the Buddha were Kamma Vipaka.

From what I have heard the pains experienced by the Buddha were due to kamma vipaka. For example he had a back pain and this was due to him (when a Bodhisatta) breaking someone’s back in a wrestling game. Kamma was also the reason that the Buddha and a group of monks did not receive any Dhana and were offered only horse food for a period of 3 months.

So you may want to double check what has been said by Nagasena.