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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KULLAVAGGA.
1, 2, 1.
who themselves (&c., as in § 1, down to the end).
The Samgha hereby carries out the Tagganiyakamma against them. Whosoever of the venerable ones approves of the carrying out of the Tagganiyakamma against the Bhikkhus who are followers of Panduka and Lohitaka, let him remain silent. Whosoever approves not thereof, let him speak.
""A second time I say the same thing. Let the venerable Samgha (&c., as before ?). A third time I say the same thing. Let the venerable Samgha (&c., as before").
““The Tagganiya-kamma against the Bhikkhus who are followers of Panduka and Lohitaka has been carried by the Samgha. The Samgha approves (the motion). Therefore is it silent. Thus do I understand."'
2%. 1. “There are three things, O Bhikkhus, by which, when a Tagganiya-kamma is characterised, it is against the Dhamma, and against the Vinaya, and difficult to be settled; (that is to say), when it has not been carried out in a full assembly of properly qualified persons, according to law and justice, and in the presence of the litigant parties : when it has been carried out without the accused person having been heard—when it has been carried out without the accused person having confessed himself guilty. A Tagganiya-kamma, O Bhikkhus, charac
· The motion just proposed is repeated down to the end. * Repeated below, chapters 10, 14, and 19.
8 All these details are involved in the meaning of the technical term a sammukhatâ, which is fully explained in Kullavagga IV, 14, 16, and following.
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