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1. Noble Warrior Establishing the Nuns’ Order
    … As she was standing there, she said to him: “It would be good, lord, if women might obtain the Going-forth from home into homelessness in the Dhamma & Vinaya made known by the Tathāgata.” “Enough, Gotamī. Don’t advocate women’s Going-forth from home into homelessness in the Dhamma & Vinaya made known by the Tathāgata.” A second time… A third time, she said … 
2. Noble Warrior The First Council to the Present
    … We’ve been tyrannized by (his saying,) “This is allowable for you; this isn’t allowable for you.” But now we will do what we want to do, and not what we don’t want to do.’ “Friends, let’s recite the Dhamma & Vinaya together before non-Dhamma shines out and Dhamma is obscured, and non-Vinaya shines out and Vinaya is obscured; before … 
3. Noble Warrior Abbreviations
   Abbreviations Pāli Suttas AN Aṅguttara Nikāya Dhp Dhammapada DN Dīgha Nikāya Iti Itivuttaka MN Majjhima Nikāya SN Saṁyutta Nikāya Sn Sutta Nipāta Thag Theragāthā Thig Therīgāthā Ud Udāna Pāli Vinaya Cv Cullavagga Mv Mahāvagga NP Nissagiya Pācittiya Pc Pācittiya Pr Pārājika Sg Saṅghādisesa References to DN, Iti, and MN are to discourse. Those to Dhp are to verse. Those to NP, Pc, Pr, and … 
4. Noble Warrior
    … 1) finding the path and attaining awakening, 2) teaching that path to his contemporaries, establishing a living apprenticeship for awakening, and 3) establishing the Dhamma and Vinaya to give structure to that apprenticeship so that the True Dhamma would last for many generations. Particular attention is given to the many accounts of the Buddha’s awakening and the role that his awakening played in … 
5. Noble Warrior Glossary
    … The most serious offense in the Vinaya. Any monk who commits this offense is automatically no longer a monk and cannot reordain in this lifetime. Pāṭimokkha: Basic code of monastic discipline, composed of 227 rules for monks and 311 for nuns. Pavāraṇā: Invitation. A monastic ceremony marking the end of the Rains residence on the full moon in October. During the ceremony, each monk … 
6. Noble Warrior Dwelling near Sāvatthī
    … The fact that this Dhamma & Vinaya has a gradual training, a gradual performance, a gradual practice, with a penetration to gnosis only after a long stretch: This is the first amazing & astounding quality of this Dhamma & Vinaya because of which, as they see it again & again, the monks take great joy in this Dhamma & Vinaya. “[2] And furthermore, just as the ocean is stable … 
7. Noble Warrior Old Age
    … They keep arguing, quarreling, & disputing, stabbing one another with weapons of the mouth: ‘You don’t understand this Dhamma-Vinaya. I understand this Dhamma-Vinaya. How could you understand this Dhamma-Vinaya? You practice wrongly. I practice rightly. I’m consistent. You’re inconsistent. What should be said first, you said last. What should be said last, you said first. What you cogitated so … 
8. Noble Warrior Introduction
    … In a similar vein, narratives in the Vinaya show us the incidents he was responding to when legislating rules for the monastic Saṅgha, as well as the standards he wanted the rules to embody. Although many of the passages in the suttas and Vinaya were composed by his followers from the point of view of an omniscient narrator—a role attributed to Ven. Ānanda … 
9. Noble Warrior Endnotes
    … Upāli—the same Upāli who had been the barber of the Sakyan princes—went on to become an arahant and the foremost expert in the Vinaya. 97. Ariṭṭha is apparently referring to sexual intercourse. 98. The first seven of these comparisons are treated in detail in MN 54. The simile of the butcher’s ax and chopping block is mentioned in MN 23, the … 
10. Noble Warrior The Last Year
     … This is the Dhamma, this is the Vinaya, this is the Teacher’s instruction.’ His statement is neither to be approved nor scorned. Without approval or scorn, take careful note of his words and make them stand against the suttas and tally them against the Vinaya. If, on making them stand against the suttas and tallying them against the Vinaya, you find that they … 
11. Noble Warrior Portraits of the Buddha
     … They blame themselves, and not others, (saying,) “We were unfortunate and without merit, in that even though we went forth into such a well taught Dhamma & Vinaya, we were unable to follow the holy life, complete and perfect, throughout life.” Becoming monastery attendants or lay followers, they undertake and observe the five training rules. In this way, Gotama the contemplative is honored, respected, revered … 
12. Noble Warrior The Quarrel at Kosambī
     … But the monk was learned & well versed in the tradition, had memorized the Dhamma, the Vinaya, & the Mātikās,152 was wise, competent, knowledgeable, scrupulous, anxious (not to commit an offense), & desirous of training. And so the monk went to his like-minded companions and said, “This is a non-offense. This is not an offense. I have not fallen into an offense. It’s … 
13. Noble Warrior Training the Saṅgha
     … However, it wasn’t until later that he began legislating a Pāṭimokkha, a code of rules, that eventually became the backbone of the Vinaya. The events leading up to the legislation of the first rule in the Pāṭimokkha are these: At that time, the Awakened One, the Blessed One, was dwelling in Verañjā at the foot of Naḷeru’s nimba tree with a large … 
14. Noble Warrior Returning Home
     … But with only a few exceptions, the Canon limits its accounts to incidents that carried lessons in Dhamma & Vinaya. This chapter begins with one of the few exceptions: a poem attributed to Ven. Kāludāyin, a monk not otherwise identified in the Vinaya or the four nikāyas. The Commentary asserts that, as a lay person, he was sent by the Buddha’s father to invite … 
15. Noble Warrior Spreading the Dhamma
     … Fifty of Yasa’s householder friends from the countryside—sons of prominent and moderately prominent families—heard, “Yasa, they say, has shaved off his hair & beard, clothed himself in the ochre robes, and gone forth from home into homelessness.” Having heard that, the thought occurred to them, “It must not be lowly, this Dhamma & Vinaya, nor lowly this Going-forth, in which Yasa—having … 
16. Noble Warrior The Awakening
     … It also shows how the later accomplishments of his life—teaching the Dhamma to others and establishing the Dhamma & Vinaya so that the True Dhamma would last a long time—were directly related to the first. Past Lives The suttas list “jātakas,” or stories of previous births, as one of the genres that the Buddha used in teaching. The Vinaya and the four nikāyas … 
17. Noble Warrior Contemporary Views
     … teaching his contemporaries the path to awakening, and establishing the Dhamma and Vinaya so that the True Dhamma would last a long time. To understand the challenges he faced in accomplishing these tasks, it would be good to pause here for a brief sketch of what the Pāli Canon has to report about the philosophical and religious views current at his time. A survey … 
18. Noble Warrior Devadatta
     … He to whom these five things are agreeable should take a bamboo stick.” At that time, five hundred new Vajjian-son monks from Vesālī—newly ordained and knowing little of what had been done, (thinking,) “This is Dhamma; this is Vinaya; this is the Teacher’s dispensation”—took bamboo sticks. Then Devadatta, having split the Saṅgha, set out for Gayā Head, taking the five … 
19. Noble Warrior The Noble Search
     … This fourth great dream appeared to let him know that people from the four castes—brahmans, noble warriors, merchants, and laborers—having gone forth from home into homelessness in the Dhamma & Vinaya taught by the Tathāgata, would realize unexcelled release. “When the Tathāgata—worthy & rightly self-awakened—was still just an unawakened bodhisatta, and he walked back & forth on top of a giant mountain … 
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