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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THE MINOR DISCIPLINARY PROCEEDINGS. 337
as regards transgression-one who has failed in opinion as regards the principal matters of opinion. These are three kinds of Bhikkhus, O Bhikkhus (&c., as before, down to) the Tagganiya-kamma.
There are other three kinds of Bhikkhus, O Bhikkhus, against whom, if the Samgha likes, it should carry out the Tagganiya-kamma; (that is to say), one who speaks in dispraise of the Buddha-one who speaks in dispraise of the Dhamma-one who speaks in dispraise of the Samgha. These are three kinds of Bhikkhus, O Bhikkhus (&c., as before, down to) the Tagganiyakamma.' Here end the six permissive cases of Tagganiya
kamma.
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I. 'A Bhikkhu against whom the Tagganiyakamma has been carried out ought to conduct himself aright. And herein this is the right conduct : he ought not to confer the upa sampada—he ought not to give a nissaya -he ought not to provide
i This chapter is repeated below for the Nissaya-, Pabbaganiya-, and Parisaraniya-kammas (chapters 10, 15, and 21). The corresponding rule for the first two Ukk hepaniya-kammas is different, and much more stringent (chapter 27, repeated in chapter 31); but that for the third (chapter 33) is again the same as the rule laid down in this chapter. In the second Khandhaka (1, 2) the list of restrictions is again longer.
. Sammâvattanâ. See Mahâvagga I, 26, 1; 27,1; 33, 1; 34, 1.
• Buddhaghosa says, âgantukânam nissayo na dátabbo. The relation of a junior Bhikkhu either to his upagghaya or to his åkariya is alike called nissaya (Mahavagga I, 36, 1); but the term is more especially applied to the latter (Mahâvagga I, 32, 2, whereas in the corresponding formula for the upagghầya, Maha
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