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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VII, 2, 3.
DISSENSIONS IN THE ORDER.
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not in the way either of himself or of others!. And this celestial being, Kakudha, went to the venerable Moggallâna, and bowed down before him, and took his stand on one side. And so standing, he told the venerable Moggallana [of the thought that had arisen in Devadatta's mind, and of the result thereof). And when he had told him, he bowed down before the venerable Moggallâna, and keeping him on his right side as he passed him, he vanished away.
And the venerable Moggallâna went to the place where the Blessed One was, and told him (the whole matter]
What then, Moggallâna, have you so penetrated the mind of that celestial being Kakudha, that you know that whatsoever he speaks, that will be accordingly, and not otherwise 3?'
I have, Lord.' : 'Keep that saying, Moggallâna, secret; keep that saying secret. Even now that foolish man will himself make himself known.
34. There are, Moggallâna, these five kinds of teachers now existing in the world. What are the five ?
"In the first place, Moggallâna, there is one kind of teacher whose conduct not being pure, he yet
1 Vyâbâdheti. He could occupy the same space as other beings without incommoding them. The word occurs in the same sense in the passage quoted from Buddhaghosa in Rh. D.'s note 1 on the Maha-parinibbana Sutta V, 10, but originally occurring in the Aiguttara Nikaya. · The last paragraph is here repeated in the text.
On the use here of ketasâ keto parikka, compare Mahâ-parinibbana Sutta I, 16, 17.
• The following two sections are repeated below, VII, 3, 10, to all the Bhikkhus.
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