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, 30, 2.
THE DRESS OF THE BHIKKHUS.
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offence; or that they were mad; or that their minds were unhinged; or that they suffered bodily pain; or that suspension had been pronounced against them for their refusal to acknowledge an offence they had committed, or to atone for such an offence, or to renounce a false doctrine; or that they were eunuchs; or that they had furtively attached themselves to the Samgha); or that they had gone over to the Titthiyas; or that they were an animal; or that they had been guilty of matricide, or of parricide; or that they had murdered an Arahat; or that they had violated a Bhikkhunt; or that they had caused a schism in the Samgha; or that they had shed (a Buddha's) blood; or that they were hermaphrodites ?.
They told this matter to the Blessed One.
2. 'In case, O Bhikkhus, a Bhikkhu, after having spent the rainy season, goes away before a gift of robes has fallen to the Samgha- then they are nevertheless to be allotted to him if there be any person present proper to receive them on his be
half.
Moreover in case, O Bhikkhus, a Bhikkhu, after having spent the rainy season, and before a gift of robes has fallen to the Samgha, leaves the Order, or dies, or acknowledges that he has become a Sâmanera, or that he has abandoned the precepts, or lastly that he has become guilty of an extreme offence, — then the Samgha becomes the owner (of the portion of robes that would have fallen to him).
The above list of disqualifications has already occurred at II, 36; IV, 14.
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