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, 25, 4.
THE DRESS OF THE BHIKKHUS.
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rious person you are, friend U pananda. Plenty of robes have come into your possession!'
Where is my merit, friends ?' said he, and (told them all that had happened]”.
3. 'How then, friend Upananda, have you spent the rainy season in one place, and accepted a share of robes in another place?'
Yes, friends, that is so.'
Those Bhikkhus who were moderate were indignant, murmured, and became annoyed, saying, 'How can the venerable Upananda spend the rainy season in one place, and accept a share of robes in another place ?'
They told the matter to the Blessed One. "Is it true, Upananda, as they say, that you have spent the rainy season in one place, and have accepted a share of robes in another place ?'
It is true, Lord.'
The Blessed Buddha rebuked him, saying, 'How can you, O foolish one, act so ? This will not redound to the conversion of the unconverted, or to the increase of the converted!
And after having rebuked him, and delivered a religious discourse, he addressed the Bhikkhus, saying, "Whosoever, O Bhikkhus, has spent the rainy season in one place, is not to accept a share of the robes in another place. Whosoever does so shall be guilty of a dukkata.'
4. Now at that time the venerable Upananda of the Sakya race spent the rainy season alone in two residences, thinking thus to obtain many robes. And the Bhikkhus thought: 'How should his portion
Section 1 repeated, with the necessary change of person, &c.
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