Vinaya Texts

SR No.: 007684
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: T W Rhys Davids, Hermann Oldenberg
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1881
Total Pages: 2523
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 47 MB

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two acts, that is, the upasampadâ ordination in
the central countries1 and abbhâna.
IX, 4, 2.
FORMAL ACTS OF THE SAMGHA.
'In case, O Bhikkhus, the Bhikkhu Samgha consist of ten persons, and acts lawfully, and is complete, it is entitled to perform all official acts except one, namely, abbhâna.
'In case, O Bhikkhus, the Bhikkhu Samgha consist of twenty persons, and acts lawfully, and is complete, it is entitled to perform all official acts.
'In case, O Bhikkhus, the Bhikkhu Samgha consist of more than twenty persons, and acts lawfully, and is complete, it is entitled to perform all official
acts.
2. 'An official act, O Bhikkhus, which requires the presence of four persons, if performed by a congregation in which a Bhikkhunt is the fourth, is no real act, and ought not to be performed. An official act, O Bhikkhus, which requires the presence of four persons, if performed by a congregation in which a sikkhamânâ is the fourth, . in which a sâmanera, &c.2, is the fourth, . in which a person belonging to another communion is the fourth, . . . . in which a person staying within a different boundary is the fourth, in which a person poised in the air by supernatural power is
...
1 As regards the exceptional regulations referring to the upasampada ordination in the bordering countries, see above, V, 13, 12.
"Here follows the very frequent enumeration given, for instance, at II, 36, §§ 1-4.
• Generally speaking, the two categories of 'persons belonging to another communion,' and 'persons staying within another boundary,' can be considered as coincident. In certain cases, however, they could be distinguished; see X, 1, §§ 9, 10.
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