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, 4, 8.
FORMAL ACTS OF THE SAMGHA.
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on whom the abbhâna sentence ought to be conferred", institutes the proceedings of parivâsa, of mulâ ya patikassanâ, and of mânatta, or if a congregation in which such a person is the twentieth, confers abbhana, this is no real act and ought not to be performed.
7. Of some persons, O Bhikkhus, the protest 2 raised in the assembly is effectual, of some persons it is ineffectual.
' And which are the persons, O Bhikkhus, whose protest raised in the assembly is ineffectual ?
The protest, О Bhikkhus, raised in the assembly by a Bhikkhunt is ineffectual. The protest, O Bhikkhus, raised in the assembly by a sikkhamânà (&c.", down to :) by a person against whom the Samgha institutes a proceeding, is ineffectual. These are the persons, O Bhikkhus, whose protest raised in the assembly is ineffectual.
8. “And which are the persons, O Bhikkhus, whose protest raised in the assembly is effectual ?
• The protest, О Bhikkhus, of a Bhikkhu who is healthy (in mind), who belongs to the same communion“, who stays within the same boundary', even
1 But has not yet been conferred. An abbhita Bhikkhu is considered as fully rehabilitated.
. Against official acts which the Samgha is performing.
3 This list of persons who cannot protest against official acts of the Samgha differs from that given in $ 2 or at II, 36, $$ 1-4, only by three categories being here added after a person guilty of an extreme offence' (antimavatthum agghấpannaka). These categories are the following: 'a madman,' a person whose mind is unhinged,''a person who suffers (bodily) pain.' See II, 22, 3, &c.
• That is, the Samgha which is going to perform the act in question.
6 See the note at § 2.
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