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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MAHAVAGGA.
IX, 2, 2.
pronounced expulsion against a number of Bhikkhus; a single Bhikkhu pronounced expulsion against a Samgha; two Bhikkhus pronounced expulsion against a single one .... against two .... against a number of Bhikkhus.... against a Samgha ; a number of Bhikkhus pronounced expulsion against a single one .... against two .... against another number .... against a Samgha; a Samgha pronounced expulsion against another Samgha?
2. Those Bhikkhus who were moderate, were annoyed, murmured, and became angry: 'How can the Bhikkhus of Kampå perform official acts in the following ways : perform unlawful acts before an incomplete congregation (&c., down to :) how can a Samgha pronounce expulsion against another Samgha ?'
These Bhikkhus told this thing to the Blessed One.
Is it true, as they say, O Bhikkhus, that the Bhikkhus of Kampâ perform official acts in the following ways, &c. ?'
It is true, Lord.'
Then the blessed Buddha rebuked those Bhikkhus : 'It is improper, O Bhikkhus, what these foolish persons are doing; it is unbecoming, indecent, unworthy of Samanas, unallowable, and to be avoided. How can these foolish persons, O Bhikkhus, perform official acts in the following ways, &c. This will not do, O Bhikkhus, for converting the unconverted.' Having thus rebuked them and delivered a religious discourse, he thus addressed the Bhikkhus:
3. "If an official act, О Bhikkhus, is performed 1 The cases of a Samgha's expelling a single Bhikkhu, or two Bhikkhus, or a number of Bhikkhus, are omitted, because such proceedings are lawful,
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