108 Arhats Who Broke Three Precepts in a Row and Delivered Babies to Pregnant Women

It rained heavily and the city was submerged in the ocean overnight. Hundreds of expectant mothers across the county had no choice but to climb mountains and go to temples to take shelter from the rain. The abbot of Lingyun Temple, Du Ye, saw this and broke several precepts. Ignoring the Buddhist rules and regulations, hundreds of pregnant women were welcomed into the temple. When the delivery room was not enough, Du Ye decisively located the delivery room in the main hall. When there were not enough delivery beds, Du Ye decisively used all the altar tables in the three halls as delivery beds. When he was worried about the nutritional deficiencies of mothers and newborn babies, he had the livestock raised in the backyard killed for meat and cooked in front of the main hall. After all the hard work, the mothers finally gave birth safely and welcomed 108 babies. Afterwards, a reporter came to interview and asked Du Ye why he was not worried about violating Buddhist precepts. Du Ye clasped his hands together and smiled: In this world, the biggest taboo is not to save someone even if they die. A year later, the mothers made cassocks from the clothes of one hundred and eight babies and named them Arhat cassocks. At the moment when I put on my cassock, the light of the Buddha shines all over the world. This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.