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, 6, 1.
1. And the venerable Upáli 1 went to the place where the Blessed One was. Having approached him and respectfully saluted the Blessed One, he sat down near him. Sitting near him the venerable Upali said to the Blessed One: 'Lord, if a complete congregation performs an act at which the presence (of the accused Bhikkhu) is required, in his absenceis this act, Lord, performed lawfully according to Dhamma and Vinaya?''
'It is performed, Upâli, unlawfully against Dhamma and Vinaya.'
2. • Lord, if a complete congregation performs an act at which the accused Bhikkhu) ought to be called upon for an answer, without calling upon him for an answer—if it performs an act at which the confession (of the culprit) is required, without his confession-if it grants to a Bhikkhu to whom sativinaya? ought to be granted, an amalhavinaya : if it proceeds against a Bhikkhu to whom amalhavinaya ought to be granted, with the tassapàpiyyasikâkammaif it proceeds against a Bhikkhu against whom the tassa pâpiyyasikâkamma ought
1 That the redactors of this Pitaka have chosen Upáli here and at X, 6, Kullavagga II, 2, 7, to question the Blessed One about the Vinaya regulations, stands evidently in connection with the tradition ascribing to Upâli an especial authority regarding the rules of the Order and styling him, as is said in the Dipavamsa (IV, 3, 5; V, 7, 9), agganikkhittaka, i.e. original depositary, of the Vinaya tradition. See our Introduction, p. xii seq. See Kullavagga IV, 4, 10.
See Kullavagga IV, 5. + See Kullavagga IV, 11.
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