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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MAHAVAGGA.
II, 36, 2.
offence. Let no one, O Bhikkhus, recite the Pâtimokkha in a seated assembly (of Bhikkhus) before a sikkhamâna", a sâmanera, a sâmaneri, one who has abandoned the precepts?, one who is guilty of an extreme offence? He who does, commits a dukkata offence.
2. Let no one, O Bhikkhus, recite the Pâtimokkha in a seated assembly (of Bhikkhus) before a (Bhikkhu) against whom expulsion has been pronounced for his refusal to see an offence (committed by himself), before a (Bhikkhu) against whom expulsion has been pronounced for his refusal to atone for such an offence, or for his refusal to renounce a false doctrine. He who does, is to be treated according to the laws.
3. 'Let no one, O Bhikkhus, recite the Pâtimokkha in a seated assembly (of Bhikkhus) before a eunuch, before one who has furtively attached himself (to the Samgha), &c. (see chap. 22. 3), before a hermaphrodite. He who does, commits a dukkata offence.
1 In the Bhikkhunikhandhaka (Kullav. X, 1, 4) we are told that Buddha, when admitting women to the Order of mendicants, prescribed for them a probationary course of instruction, which should last two years, after which time they were to ask for the upasampada ordination. During these two years the candidates were called sikkhamânâs. Childers (Dict. s.v. sikkhati) has misunderstood the Mahavamsa (p. 37), when he states that in the case of Asoka's daughter Samghamittâ the training prescribed for the sikkhamânâs was absolved in a single day.
See the note on chap. 22. 3.
The law alluded to most probably is the 69th Pâkittiya rule, which expressly treats only of the conduct towards Bhikkhus refusing to renounce false doctrines, but it may be extended by analogy also to the two other categories of Bhikkhus mentioned in our passage.
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