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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KULLAVAGGA.
II, 3, 1.
dwelling together", by dwelling alone?, and by not announcing
These are the three ways of interruption to the probationary period, O Upâli, of a Bhikkhu who has been placed under probation.'
34 1. Now at that time, since there was a great company of the Bhikkhus gathered together at Sâvatthi, those Bhikkhus who had been placed on probation did not know how to carry out their probation correctly.
They told this thing to the Blessed One.
*I prescribe to you, O Bhikkhus, to carry out your probation correctly. Now thus, O Bhikkhus, ought you to postpone the probation. The Bhikkhu who has been placed on probation is to go up to a single Bhikkhu, and arranging his robe on one shoulder, and squatting down on his heels, and stretching forth his hands with the palms together, he is to say: "I postpone my probation." Then the probation is postponed. Or he is to say: "I postpone
1 Buddhaghosa explains this to mean when the probationer has done any of the things forbidden in II, 1, 4.
* That is, when the probationer has done any of the things forbidden in II, 1, 3.
8 That is, when the probationer has omitted to make any of the announcements prescribed at the end of II, 1, 2.
* This chapter is repeated below, chap. 8, in reference to Bhikkhus undergoing the Mânatta discipline.
That is, if it should be impossible during the time immediately succeeding the imposition of probation to fulfil all the thereto necessary duties, then a Bhikkhu might postpone the fulfilment to some more convenient season.
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