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

Page 258

1, 61.
ADMISSION TO THE ORDER OF BHIKKHUS.
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They told this thing to the Blessed One. 'I prescribe, O Bhikkhus, that you expel a novice (from the fraternity) in the following ten cases : When he destroys life; when he commits theft ; when he commits impurity; when he is a liar; when he drinks strong drinks; when he speaks against the Buddha; when he speaks against the Dhamma; when he speaks against the Samgha; when he holds false doctrines; when he has sexual intercourse with Bhikkhunis? In these ten cases I prescribe, O Bhikkhus, that you expel the novice (from the fraternity).'
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At that time, &c. 2
Let a eunuch, O Bhikkhus, who has not received the upasam padâ ordination, not receive it; if he has received it, let him be expelled (from the fraternity).'
1 The case of the novice's committing sexual intercourse with a Bhikkhunî can have found its place here only by a negligence of the redactor, as it is comprised already in the third of the ten cases (the novice's committing impurity). Buddhaghosa (who of course never admits anything like an inadvertence of the holy Theras by whom the Vinaya is compiled) says that the third case and the tenth are distinguished here, because a person that has simply committed an impurity may receive the ordination, if he is willing to refrain himself in future; whilst a bhikkhunidusaka cannot be ordained in any case (see chap. 67).
Tena kho pana samayena aññataro pandako bhikkhûsu pab. bagito hoti, so dahare dahare bhikkhů upasamkamitva evam vadeti : etha mam âyasmanto důsethâ 'ti. Bhikkhů apasâdenti : nassa pandaka, vinassa pandaka, ko tayâ attho 'ti. So bhikkhdhi apasâdito mahante mahante moligalle (Buddhaghosa : thulasarîre) sâmanere upasamkamitva evam vadeti : etha mam âvuso důsethâ
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