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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MAHÂVAGGA.
IX, 5, 1.
5.
1. 'In case, O Bhikkhus, there be no offence which a Bhikkhu should see (or, acknowledge as committed by himself), and if the Samgha, or a number of Bhikkhus, or a single person reprove him (and say): “ You have committed an offence, friend; do you see that offence ?"--and he replies: “There is no offence, friends, which I should see," and the Samgha pronounces expulsion against him for his refusal to see that offence,-this is an unlawful act.
In case, O Bhikkhus, there be no offence which a Bhikkhu should atone for, &c.
In case, O Bhikkhus, there be no false doctrine which a Bhikkhu should renounce, &c.2
2. 'In case, O Bhikkhus, there be no offence which a Bhikkhu should see, and there be no offence which he should atone for, and if the Samgha, or a number of Bhikkhus, or a single person reprove him (and say): “You have committed an offence, friend; do you see that offence ? Atone for that offence,”—and he replies: "There is no offence, friends, which I should see; there is no offence,
1 The ukkhepaniyakamma åpattiyâ appafinissagge (expulsion for a Bhikkhu's refusal to atone for an offence) is spoken of here exactly in the same terms as those in which the ukkhepaniyakamma âpattiyâ adassane (expulsion for a Bhikkhu's refusal to see an offence) is spoken of in the preceding clause. The brethren say to the pretended offender, 'You have committed an offence, friend; atone for that offence' --which he refuses to do.
* As above; the Bhikkhus institute the ukkhepaniyakamma pâpikâya ditthiyâ appafinissagge (expulsion for a Bhikkhu's refusal to renounce a false doctrine).
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