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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VI, 6, 5.
ON DWELLINGS AND FURNITURE.
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Worthy of praise while in this life
And happy in the life to come. 4. 'So that, О Bhikkhus, since even animals can live together in mutual reverence, confidence, and courtesy, so much more, O Bhikkhus, should you so let your light shine forth that you, who have left the world to follow so well taught a doctrine and discipline, may be seen to dwell in like manner together.' And when he had delivered a religious discourse (as in I, 1, 3), he said to the Bhikkhus:
'I enjoin upon you, O Bhikkhus, that paying of reverence, rising up in reverence, salutation, proper respect, and apportionment of the best seat and water and food, shall be according to seniority. But property belonging to the Samgha shall not be exclusively appropriated according to seniority? Whosoever does so, shall be guilty of a dukkata.
5. “These ten, O Bhikkhus, are not to be saluted -a Bhikkhu afterwards admitted unto the higher grade of the Order by one previously admitted-a person not admitted—a senior Bhikkhu when he belongs to a different community, and does not speak according to the Dhamma-a woman -a eunuch Sa Bhikkhu who has been placed under probation-one who, having been so placed, is
i Tam sobhetha yam.... On this idiom compare Mahavagga X, 2, 20.
. Compare chapter 7 and also chapter 12. It would seem from these passages that the prohibition to reserve exclusively according to seniority the use of property. belonging to the whole Samgha was held to imply that the temporary use of it was to go according to seniority. Compare X, 18.
* See Kullavagga X, 3. • Compare Mahấvagga I, 61, 2. See Kullavagga II, 1, 2.
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