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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IX, 3, 3.
FORMAL ACTS OF THE SAMGHA. -
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&c. These Bhikkhus told this thing to the Blessed One.
'Is it true, as they say, O Bhikkhus, that the Khabbaggiya Bhikkhus, &c. ?'
It is true, Lord, &c. Having thus rebuked them and delivered a religious discourse, he thus addressed the Bhikkhus:
2. If an official act, О Bhikkhus, is performed unlawfully by an incomplete congregation, it is no real act and ought not to be performed (&c. , down to:). If an official act, О Bhikkhus, is performed against which (the Bhikkhus present) protest, which is unlawful, objectionable, and invalid, this is no real act and ought not to be performed.
3. “There are, O Bhikkhus, six kinds of official acts (which a Samgha can perform): an unlawful act, an act performed by an incomplete congregation, an act performed by a complete congregation, a seemingly lawful act performed by an incomplete congregation, a seemingly lawful act performed by a complete congregation, a lawful act performed by a complete congregation.
And which, O Bhikkhus, is an unlawful act? If one performs, O Bhikkhus, a ñattidutiya act? with one ñatti, and does not proclaim a kammavâkâ, such an act is unlawful. If one performs, O Bhikkhus, a ñattidutiya act with two ñattis and does not proclaim a kammavâkâ . ... with one kammavâkâ and does not propose a ñatti.... with two
1 Here the different categories of forbidden acts are enumerated one after the other, as in $ 1.
* About ñatti, kammavâkâ, hattidutiya, and ñattikatuttha acts, see our note at I, 28, 3. Proposing a natti' and 'proclaiming a kamma va ka' mean proposing a motion and putting a resolution to the assembled brethren.
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