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mtshams med pa lnga

Five Inexpiable Sins. Matricide ma gsod pa arhatcide dgra bcom pa patricide pha gsod pa creating schism in the community dge 'dun gyi dbyen byas ba and to draw blood from a tathagata's body bde bzhin gshegs pa'i sku la ngan sems kyis khrag 'byin pa; five boundless Offenses. 1) pha bsad pa killing one's father. 2) ma bsad pa killing one's mother. 3) dgra bcom pa bsad pa killing an arhat. 4) de bzhin gshegs pa la ngan sems kyis khrag phyung ba maliciously causing a Tathagata to bleed. 5) dge 'dun gyi dbyen byas pa causing dissention in the Sangha. five inexpiable sins; the five no-intermediaries. The whole teaching of the buddha is that karma, whatever it is, can be purified. Inexpiable means it cannot be purified. Heinous means awful or terrible. The point here is that these five types of action (hence karma) result in a situation where one goes IM-MEDIATELY to the hells upon death. There is no intervening mtshams med pa bardo experience. Hence the translation should be "the five no-intermediaries" or something of that nature

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