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Anantarika-karma or ànantarika-kamma in Buddhism
Buddhism

Buddhism is a family of beliefs and practices considered by most to be a religionand is based on the teachings attributed to Siddhartha Gautama, commonly known as "The Buddha" , who was born in what is today Nepal....
 is a heinous crime, which through karma
Karma

Karma is the concept of "action" or "deed" in Indian religions understood as that which causes the entire cycle of causality originating in ancient India and treated in Hindu, Jain, Sikh and Buddhism philosophies....
 brings immediate disaster. Traditionally there are five such crimes:

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Devadatta

Devadatta was a Buddhism monk and the cousin of Gautama Buddha. He was recorded as having created a schism in the sangha, or monastic community....
 is noted for attempting to kill the Sakyamuni Buddha on several occasions including:

According to Suttapitaka, after trying to kill Sakyamuni a number of times, Devadatta set up his own Buddhist monastic order by splitting the (sangha
Sangha

Sangha is a word in Pali or Sanskrit that can be translated roughly as "association" or "assembly," "company" or "community" with common goal, vision or purpose....
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Anantarika-karma or ànantarika-kamma in Buddhism
Buddhism

Buddhism is a family of beliefs and practices considered by most to be a religionand is based on the teachings attributed to Siddhartha Gautama, commonly known as "The Buddha" , who was born in what is today Nepal....
 is a heinous crime, which through karma
Karma

Karma is the concept of "action" or "deed" in Indian religions understood as that which causes the entire cycle of causality originating in ancient India and treated in Hindu, Jain, Sikh and Buddhism philosophies....
 brings immediate disaster. Traditionally there are five such crimes:
  • patricide
    Patricide

    Patricide is the act of killing one's father, or a person who kills his or her father. The word patricide derives from the Latin word pater and the Latin suffix -cida ....
  • matricide
    Matricide

    Matricide is the act of killing one's mother. As for any type of killing, Motive can vary a great deal....
  • killing an arahat
  • wounding a buddha
  • creating a schism in the sangha
    Sangha

    Sangha is a word in Pali or Sanskrit that can be translated roughly as "association" or "assembly," "company" or "community" with common goal, vision or purpose....


Devadatta

Devadatta
Devadatta

Devadatta was a Buddhism monk and the cousin of Gautama Buddha. He was recorded as having created a schism in the sangha, or monastic community....
 is noted for attempting to kill the Sakyamuni Buddha on several occasions including:
  • Throwing a large rock at him. Devadatta missed, but a splinter from the rock drew blood from the Buddha's foot.
  • Inciting an elephant to charge at the Buddha. The Buddha was able to pacify the elephant by directing metta
    Metta

    Metta or maitri has been translated as "loving-kindness," "friendliness," "benevolence," "amity," "friendship," "good will," "kindness," "love," "sympathy," and "active interest in others." It is one of the ten paramita of the Theravada Schools of Buddhism, and the first of the four Brahmavihara....
     to it.


According to Suttapitaka, after trying to kill Sakyamuni a number of times, Devadatta set up his own Buddhist monastic order by splitting the (sangha
Sangha

Sangha is a word in Pali or Sanskrit that can be translated roughly as "association" or "assembly," "company" or "community" with common goal, vision or purpose....
). During his efforts to become the leader of his own Sangha, he proposed five extra-strict rules for monks, which he knew Buddha would not allow. Devadatta's reasoning was that after he had proposed those rules and Buddha had not allowed them, Devadatta could claim that he did follow and practice these five rules, making him a better and more pure monk. One of these five extra rules required monks to be vegetarian. In the Contemplation Sutra
Contemplation Sutra

The is one of the three major Buddhist Buddhist texts#Sutra found within the Pure Land branch of Mahayana Buddhism.It begins with a story where a prince named Ajatasatru was enticed by the villain Devadatta to murder his father in order to ascend the throne....
, Devadatta is said to have convinced Prince Ajatasattu
Ajatashatru

Ajatashatru was a king of the Magadha empire that ruled north India.He has been referred to as Vedehi-putto-Ajatashatru in Pali texts . During the his father?s kingship he was a Viceroy at Champa,the capital of Anga, which was annexed to Magadha Kingdom....
 to murder his father King Bimbisara
Bimbisara

Bimbisara, was a king of the Magadha empire from 543 BC to his death and belonged to the Hariyanka dynasty....
 and ascend the throne. Ajatasattu follows the advice, and this action prevents him from attaining enlightenment at a later time, when listening to some teaching of Buddha. Devadatta is the only individual from the early Buddhist tradition to have committed three anantarika-karmas.

Karma
Karma

Karma is the concept of "action" or "deed" in Indian religions understood as that which causes the entire cycle of causality originating in ancient India and treated in Hindu, Jain, Sikh and Buddhism philosophies....

Commit anantarika-karma would go to the hell of Avici
Avici

In Buddhism, is the lowest level of the Naraka or "hell" realm, into which the dead who have committed grave misdeeds may be reborn.People reborn in generally have committed one or more of the Five Anantarika-karma:...
 after the end of the life.

Accounts claim that towards the end of Devadatta's life, he was struck by a severe remorse caused by his past misdeeds and did indeed manage to approach the Buddha and retook refuge in the Triple Gem, dying shortly afterwards.. Because of gravity of his sins, he was condemned to suffer for several hundred millennia in Avici. However, it was also said that he would eventually be admitted into the heavens as a Pratyekabuddha due to his past merits prior to his corruption.

In the Samaññaphala Sutta
Samaññaphala Sutta

The Sama??aphala Sutta is the second discourse of all 34 Digha Nikaya discourses. The title means, "The Fruit of Contemplative Life Discourse."...
, Gautama Buddha said that if Ajatasattu hadn't killed his father, he would have attained sotapannahood, a degree of enlightenment. But because he had killed his father he could not attain it.

In the Contemplation Sutra
Contemplation Sutra

The is one of the three major Buddhist Buddhist texts#Sutra found within the Pure Land branch of Mahayana Buddhism.It begins with a story where a prince named Ajatasatru was enticed by the villain Devadatta to murder his father in order to ascend the throne....
, Lord Buddha taught Ajatasattu's mother, Queen Vaidehi, those who attain birth on the lowest level of the lowest grade are the sentient beings who commit such evils as the five gravest offenses, the ten evil acts and all kinds of immorality, when he is about to die, he may meet a good teacher, who consoles him in various ways, teaching him the wonderful Dharma and urging him to be mindful of the Buddha; but he is too tormented by pain to do so, The good teacher then advises him say Namo Amitabhaya
Amitabha

Amitabha is a celestial Buddhahood described in the scriptures of the Mahayana school of Buddhism. Amitabha is the principal buddha in the Pure Land sect, a branch of Buddhism practiced mainly in East Asia....
 Buddhaya ten times. Because he calls the Buddha's Name, with each repetition, the evil karma which he has committed during eighty kotis of kalpas of Samsara is extinguished. When he comes to die, he sees before him a golden lotus-flower like the disk of the sun, and in an instant he is born within a lotus-bud in the Land of Utmost Bliss.

In the Buddha Say Extinguish Five Grave Offenses Big Tantra Sutra, buddha taught a tantra extinguish five grave offences.

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