Text of Confucianism Part 02

SR No.: 007676
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: James Legge
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1882
Total Pages: 2405
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 43 MB

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VII, 6, 4.
THE KATRINA CEREMONIES.
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1. 'A Bhikkhu, after the Kathina ceremony has been held, takes a robe, and goes away. And when he has got beyond the boundary he thinks, “I will have the robe made up here, and will never go back.” And he gets the robe made up.
"That Bhikkhu's Kathina privileges are suspended on the ground of his having a robe ready for wear, &c.
2. ‘A Bhikkhu, after the Kathina ceremony has been held, takes a robe and goes away, thinking, “I will never come back.” And when he has got beyond the boundary he thinks, “I will have the robe made up here.” And he gets the robe made up, &c.
3. ‘A Bhikkhu, after the Kathina ceremony has been held, takes a robe and goes away, without taking a resolution; he neither thinks “I will come back," nor does he think "I will not come back.” And when he has got beyond the boundary, &c.8
4. 'A Bhikkhu, after the Kathina ceremony has been held, takes a robe and goes away, thinking,
? This case is word for word identical with the second case in chap. 2. 1. After it follow the third and fourth case of chap. 2. 1, which it is unnecessary to print here again in full extent. The triad of these cases is repeated here in order to serve as a basis for the variations which are to follow in $$ 2, 3.
* The triad of g 1 is repeated here, with the difference, as is seen from the opening clauses which we have fully printed, that the Bhikkhu, before he has got beyond the boundary, and not afterwards as in § 1, resolves upon not returning to the avâsa.
8 The whole triad as in. $1. The only difference between $ 3 and & 1 consists in the following words being added in $ 3 in each of the three cases, without taking a resolution; he neither thinks " I will come back," nor does he think “I will not come back." [17]
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