Vinaya (3): The Cullavagga

by T. W. Rhys Davids | 1881 | 137,074 words

The Cullavagga (part of the Vinaya collection) includes accounts of the First and Second Buddhist Councils as well as the establishment of the community of Buddhist nuns. The Cullavagga also elaborates on the etiquette and duties of Bhikkhus....

Cullavagga, Khandaka 3, Chapter 11

1. When he had accomplished that Mānatta, and while he was worthy to be rehabilitated, he committed an offence—the first Saṃghādisesa offence—which he did not conceal.

He told the Bhikkhus [all that had happened from chapter 6 onwards down to this last offence]. They told, &c.

Let then the Saṃgha, O Bhikkhus, impose upon Udāyi the Bhikkhu a Mānatta of six days' duration, for that he when he had (&c., as in first paragraph down to) not conceal, throwing him back to the commencement (of his Mānatta).

'Now thus, O Bhikkhus, [here follows the kammavācā as before.]

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