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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VIII, 24, 2.
THE DRESS OF THE BHIKKHUS.
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season has not been made, or has been left unfinished'.
These, O Bhikkhus, are the five reasons,' &c.
24.
1. Now at that time a certain Bhikkhu kept Vassa? alone. The people then gave him robes, saying, 'We give them to the Samgha.
Then that Bhikkhu thought: 'It has been laid down by the Blessed One that the lowest number which can constitute a Samgha is four 3. Now I am by myself, and these people have given the robes, saying, "We give them to the Samgha." I had better take these robes, which are the property of a Samgha, to Sâvatthi.'
So that Bhikkhu did so, and told the matter to the Blessed One.
"These robes are your own, O Bhikkhu, until the Kathina ceremony shall have been performed
2. “Now in case, O Bhikkhus, a Bhikkhu keep Vassa alone, and the people of the place give
1 It is evident from this last reason that the reasons are not such as would justify a Bhikkhu in laying aside the garment in such a way as to remain naked, but such as would justify him in not using the rainy-season garment when he might otherwise have done so. In the five cases mentioned he might wear the nether garment only reaching from above the navel to below the knees, instead of the garment for the rainy season, which was smaller in size. See our note above on VIII, 13, 5, and VIII, 15, 15.
2 That is, spent the rainy season. 3 This is laid down in Mahavagga IX, 4, 1.
* And thereby the Kathina license suspended. Compare the ist, and, and 3rd Nissaggiyas, and our note on p. 18.
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