Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 05/03/2020
Venerable Lakuṇṭaka Bhaddiya is a dwarf, considered to be ugly and unsightly. The Buddha warns the monks not to despise him as he had realized full awakening.At Sāvatthī. Then Venerable Lakuṇṭaka Bhaddiya went to see the Buddha. The Buddha saw him coming off in the distance, and addressed the mendicants: “Mendicants, do you you see this monk coming—ugly, unsightly, deformed, and despised by the mendicants?” “Yes, sir.” “That mendicant is very mighty and powerful.
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