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 32

1. 'And in case, O Bhikkhus, a Bhikkhu who has rendered himself liable to the Mānatta discipline, or is undergoing the Mānatta discipline, or is fit to be rehabilitated, is guilty meanwhile of a number of Saṃghādisesa offences which he does not conceal; and he then throws off the robes, and again receives the upasampadā,—then with regard to the Bhikkhu so liable to the Mānatta discipline, or undergoing the Mānatta discipline, or fit to be rehabilitated, the same rules are to apply as in the case of a Bhikkhu so acting while undergoing probation[1].

'And in case, O Bhikkhus, a Bhikkhu who is fit to be rehabilitated[2] is guilty meanwhile of a number of Saṃghādisesa offences which he does not conceal; and he then becomes a Sāmaṇera, goes out of his mind, becomes weak in his mind, or becomes diseased in his sensations; his offences are some of them concealed, some of them not concealed . . . . [and so on, as in chapter 30, down to the end, excepting that the penalty is here the same as it is in the previous chapters 31 and 32].'

Footnotes and references:

[1]:

As laid down in chap. 31.

[2]:

This includes, of course, the two other cases of a Bhikkhu who has rendered himself liable to, or'is undergoing the Mānatta discipline.

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