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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IX, 3, 4.
ON EXCLUSION FROM THE PÂTIMOKKHA. 311
offence against doctrine. .... These are the ten kinds, &c.
And which are the ten kinds of inhibition of the Pâtimokkha which are legal ? [The same as the last, positive instead of negative.]
4. 'And how (can it be legally said that) a Bhikkhu who has been guilty of a Pårågika offence is seated in the assembly?
'In case, O Bhikkhus, a Bhikkhu sees that (another) Bhikkhu is incurring a Pârâgika offence by those means, marks, and signs by which the incurring of a Párågika offence is brought about. Or in case a Bhikkhu does not himself see that (another) Bhikkhu is incurring a Pârâgika offence, but another Bhikkhu inform the (first-mentioned) Bhikkhu, saying, “Such and such a Bhikkhu, Sir, has been guilty of a Pârâgika offence." Or in case a Bhikkhu does not himself see that another Bhikkhu is incurring a Pârâgika offence, but that one himself inform the (first-mentioned) Bhikkhu, saying, “I, Sir, have been guilty of a Pårågika offence."
(In either of these cases), O Bhikkhus, if he seem to do so, the Bhikkhu may, on the ground of what he has seen and heard and suspected, bring forward the following resolution on an U posatha day, on the fourteenth or fifteenth day of the month, at a time when that individual is present in the midst of the Samgha : “Let the venerable Samgha hear me. Such and such an individual has been guilty of a Pârâgika offence. I interdict for him the Pâtimokkha, to the effect that the Pâtimokkha ought not to be recited at a time when he is present.” That is a legal inhibition of the Pâtimokkha.
"If, when the Pâtimokkha has been inhibited for
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