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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MAHAVAGGA.
IX, 6, 4.
4. 'Lord, if a complete congregation performs an act at which the presence (of the accused Bhikkhu) is required, in his presence (&c., down to :) confers on a person, on whom the upasampadâ ordination ought to be conferred, the upasampadâ ordination,-is this act, Lord, performed lawfully according to Dhamma and Vinaya ??
'It is performed, Upåli, lawfully according to Dhamma and Vinaya. If a complete congregation performs an act (&c., down to :) the upasampada ordination,-in such case, Upâli, this act is performed lawfully according to Dhamma and Vinaya, and in such case this Samgha does not trespass against the law.
5. 'Lord, if a complete congregation grants to a Bhikkhu to whom sativinaya ought to be granted, an amalha vinaya, and to a Bhikkhu to whom amalhavinaya ought to be granted, a sativina ya (&c. , down to :) confers on a Bhikkhu to whom abbh â na ought to be granted, the upasa mpada ordination, and grants to a person on whom the upasampadâ ordination ought to be conferred, the decree of abbhana,-is this act, Lord, performed lawfully according to Dhamma and Vinaya ?'
6. 'It is performed, Upâli, unlawfully against Dhamma and Vinaya. If a complete congregation grants to a Bhikkhu, &c.,-in such case, Upali, this act is performed unlawfully against Dhamma and
1 The Samghakammas enumerated in $ 2, beginning with sativinaya, are arranged here in pairs, in direct and reverse order, in this way: sativinaya and amulhavinaya, amûlhavinaya and sativinaya; then amülhavinaya and tassapapiyyasikâkamma, tassapåpiyyasikakamma and amalhavinaya, &c.
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