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, 4, 3.
FORMAL ACTS OF THE SAMGHA.
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two acts, that is, the upasampada ordination in the central countries and abbhana.
In case, O Bhikkhus, the Bhikkhu Samgha consist of ten persons, and acts lawfully, and is complete, it is entitled to perform all official acts except one, namely, abbhầna.
In case, O Bhikkhus, the Bhikkhu Samgha consist of twenty persons, and acts lawfully, and is complete, it is entitled to perform all official acts.
In case, O Bhikkhus, the Bhikkhu Samgha consist of more than twenty persons, and acts lawfully, and is complete, it is entitled to perform all official acts.
2. 'An official act, О Bhikkhus, which requires the presence of four persons, if performed by a congregation in which a Bhikkhunt is the fourth, is no real act, and ought not to be performed. An official act, О Bhikkhus, which requires the presence of four persons, if performed by a congregation in which a sikkhamând is the fourth, . ...in which a sâmanera, &c.*, is the fourth, .... in which a person belonging to another communion is the fourth, .... in which a person staying within a different boundary: is the fourth, .... in which a person poised in the air by supernatural power is
As regards the exceptional regulations referring to the upasampadå ordination in the bordering countries, see above, V, 13, 12.
. Here follows the very frequent enumeration given, for instance, at II, 36, $$ 1-4.
• Generally speaking, the two categories of persons belonging to another communion,' and persons staying within another boundary,' can be considered as coincident. In certain cases, however, they could be distinguished; see X, 1, $$ 9, 10.
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