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 9, Chapter 2
1. Now the Blessed One addressed the Bhikkhus, and said: 'Now henceforth I, O Bhikkhus, will not hold Uposatha, nor recite the Pātimokkha; let you yourselves, O Bhikkhus, henceforth hold Uposatha and recite the Pātimokkha. It is, O Bhikkhus, an impossible thing and an inexpedient that the Tathāgata should hold Uposatha and recite the Pātimokkha before an assembly which is not pure. And the Pātimokkha, O Bhikkhus, is not to be listened to by one who has committed an offence. Whosoever shall so listen to it, shall be guilty of a dukkaṭa. I allow you, O Bhikkhus, for whomsoever shall listen to the Pātimokkha at a time when he is guilty, to interdict for him the Pātimokkha[1].
'And thus, O Bhikkhus, is it to be interdicted. On the day of Uposatha, on the fourteenth or fifteenth day of the month, and at a time when that individual is present, thus shall it be proposed in the midst of the Saṃgha:
'"Let the venerable Saṃgha hear me. Such and such an individual is guilty of an offence. For him do I interdict the Pātimokkha to the effect that it shall not be recited when he is present. The Pātimokkha is accordingly interdicted."'
Footnotes and references:
[1]:
Pātimokkhaṃ ṭhapetuṃ: exactly analogous to pavāraṇaṃ ṭhapetuṃ at Mahāvagga IV, 16, 2. H.O. has already pointed out (in his 'Buddha,' p. 381, note 2) that we have evidently here a later innovation. The whole frame of the Pātimokkha shows that it was at first intended that a guilty Bhikkhu should confess his offence during the recitation, if he had not done so before,