… 2) An open pavilion where travelers may rest.
Samadhi: Concentration. Centering the mind in a single preoccupation.
Tripitaka: The Buddhist Canon, consisting of three ‘baskets’: Vinaya (disciplinary rules), Suttas (discourses), and Abhidhamma (abstract analyses of categories and terms).
Vinaya: The disciplinary rules for Buddhist monks.
Visakha Puja: A Buddhist holy day on the full moon in May or early June, commemorating the Buddha’s …
… vinayapucchanakathā (Mv.II.15.6)
The Discussion of Asking about the Vinaya [BMC: 1 2]
[169] tena kho pana samayena chabbaggiyā bhikkhū saṅghamajjhe asammatā vinayaṁ pucchanti.
Now on that occasion some Group-of-six monks, being unauthorized, asked about the Vinaya in the midst of the Saṅgha.
bhagavato etamatthaṁ ārocesuṁ.
They reported the matter to the Blessed One.
na bhikkhave saṅghamajjhe asammatena vinayo pucchitabbo …
… The Pāṭimokkha Rules
Contents
Cover
Copyright
Quotation
Abbreviations
Preface
Dhamma-Vinaya
Disagreements among the texts
Pāṭimokkha
Offenses
Nissaya
Choosing a mentor
Taking dependence
Duties
The pupil’s duties to his mentor
The mentor’s duties to his pupil
Dismissal
Dependence lapses
Temporary exemption from dependence
Release from dependence
Return to dependence
Disrobing
State of mind
Intention
The statement
The witness
Pārājika
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3 …
… Goodwill is
what the Buddha depended on to teach, to go out of his way to
establish the Dhamma and Vinaya. Ordinarily, a teaching Buddha has
only one duty, which is to teach his contemporaries how to gain
awakening. And then there’s the optional duty of establishing a Dhamma
and Vinaya that’ll last a long time, for future generations. It takes
a …
… attained at least their first taste of the deathless.
Somdet (Thai): A royal rank given by the king to monks at the top level of the Thai ecclesiastical hierarchy.
Sutta: Discourse. Sanskrit form: sutra.
Tathagata: One who has “become true” (tatha + agata) or one who is truly gone (tatha + gata); an epithet for the Buddha.
Vinaya: The monastic discipline.
Vipassana: Insight.
Wat (Thai): Monastery.
… any of four things in and of themselves—body, feelings, mind states, or mental qualities—while putting aside greed and distress with reference to the world.
Sutta: Discourse. Sanskrit form: sutra.
Tathagata: One who has become authentic or has truly gone to the goal. An epithet of the Buddha.
Upasika: A female lay-follower of the Buddha.
Vinaya: The monastic discipline.
Wat (Thai): Monastery.
… Yet I’ve heard that in this Dhamma & Vinaya the hearts of the very young monks leap up at renunciation, grow confident, steadfast, & released, seeing it as peace. So right here is where this Dhamma & Vinaya is contrary to the great mass of people: i.e., (this issue of) renunciation.”
“This calls for a talk, householder. Let’s go see the Blessed One. Let …
… 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 …
… aññatrāpi vinayā kammaṁ karonti
They did transactions that were apart from the Vinaya.
aññatrāpi satthu sāsanā kammaṁ karonti
They did transactions that were apart from the Teacher’s instruction.
paṭikuṭṭhakataṁpi kammaṁ karonti adhammikaṁ kuppaṁ aṭṭhānārahaṁ.
They did transactions that had been protested, were non-Dhamma, reversible, not fit to stand.
ye te bhikkhū appicchā .pe. te ujjhāyanti khīyanti vipācenti
Those monks who were modest …
… physical or the mental level. In some contexts this word is used as a blanket term for all five khandhas. As the fourth khandha, it refers specifically to the fashioning or forming of urges, thoughts, etc., within the mind.
Sutta: Discourse. Sanskrit form: sutra.
Sutta Nipata: A collection of longer poems attributed to the Buddha.
Vinaya: The monastic discipline.
Vipassana: Insight.
Wat (Thai): Monastery.
… Having become a human being, acquiring conviction in the Dhamma-&-Vinaya taught by the Tathāgata: this is the devas’ reckoning of the gain that is good to gain. When that conviction is settled within one–rooted, established, & strong, not to be destroyed by any brahman or contemplative; deva, Māra, or Brahma; or anyone else in the world: this is the devas’ reckoning of becoming …
… virtue, renunciation, discernment, persistence, endurance, truthfulness, determination, goodwill, and equanimity.
Paṭibhāga: The manipulation of visions that appear in meditation.
Satipaṭṭhāna: Establishing of mindfulness: the practice of staying focused on body, feelings, mind, or mental qualities in and of themselves.
Uggaha nimitta: An image appearing spontaneously during meditation.
Upakkilesa: Mental corruption or defilement—passion, aversion, and delusion in their various forms.
Vinaya: The monastic discipline.
… one who has become authentic (tatha-āgata),” or “one who is really gone (tatha-gata),” an epithet used in ancient India for a person who has attained the highest religious goal. In the Pali Canon, this usually denotes the Buddha, although occasionally it also denotes any of his arahant disciples.
Vinaya: The monastic discipline, whose rules and traditions comprise six volumes in printed text.
[ Mahāvagga Contents ]
IX campeyyakkhandhako
The Campā Khandhaka
234 kassapagottabhikkhuvatthu: The Case of the Monk from the Kassapa Clan
235 adhammena vaggādikammakathā: The Discussion of Non-Dhamma, Factional Transactions
236 ñattivipannakammādikathā: The Discussion of Transactions with Invalid Motions, etc.
237 catuvaggakaraṇādikathā: The Discussion of Performing (Transactions) with a Quorum of Four, etc.
238 pārivāsikādikathā: The Discussion of One on Probation, etc.
239 dvenissāraṇādikathā: The Discussion …
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
Ordination
Like so many other aspects of the Vinaya, the procedures for ordination—the patterns to be followed in accepting applicants into the Community—were not determined all at once, but grew in response to events over time. There were three main stages in their development. In the first stage, during the very early years of the Buddha’s career, when an …
… is ordinarily lived, combined with a strong sense of urgency in looking for a way out.
Saṅgha: On the conventional (sammati) level, this term denotes the communities of Buddhist monks and nuns. On the ideal (ariya) level, it denotes those followers of the Buddha, lay or ordained, who have attained at least stream-entry.
Sutta: Discourse.
Vinaya: The monastic discipline.
Vipassanā: Clear-seeing insight.
… who have attained at least stream-entry.
Sutta: Discourse. Sanskrit form: Sūtra.
Tathāgata: Literally, one who “has become authentic (tatha-āgata)” or “is truly gone (tathā-gata)”: an epithet used in ancient India for a person who has attained the highest religious goal. In Buddhism, it usually denotes the Buddha, although occasionally it also denotes any of his arahant disciples.
Vinaya: The monastic discipline.
… You look in the Vinaya and there’s not much explanation. It doesn’t
say why the Buddha thought up the kathin, how it came about. It’s in a
very unusual section of the Vinaya. It seems to assume that the people
reading the section already know what the kathin is all about, so very
little is explained. So you have to read …
… monks and nuns. On the ideal (ariya) level, it denotes those followers of the Buddha, lay or ordained, who have attained at least stream-entry.
Sutta: Discourse. Sanskrit form: Sutra.
Theravāda: The school of Buddhism that takes the Pāli Canon as the most reliable record of the Buddha’s words.
Vinaya: The monastic discipline, whose rules and traditions comprise six volumes in printed text.
… This, too, is a quality creating a protector.
“Then again, the monk is one who desires the Dhamma, endearing in his conversation, greatly rejoicing in the higher Dhamma & higher Vinaya. [When they think,] ‘How this monk is one who desires the Dhamma! He is endearing in his conversation, greatly rejoicing in the higher Dhamma & higher Vinaya,’ elder monks think that he should be corrected …
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… 2) An open pavilion where travelers may rest. Samadhi: Concentration. Centering the mind in a single preoccupation. Tripitaka: The Buddhist Canon, consisting of three ‘baskets’: Vinaya (disciplinary rules), Suttas (discourses), and Abhidhamma (abstract analyses of categories and terms). Vinaya: The disciplinary rules for Buddhist monks. Visakha Puja: A Buddhist holy day on the full moon in May or early June, commemorating the Buddha’s …
MvII: uposathakkhandhako
… vinayapucchanakathā (Mv.II.15.6) The Discussion of Asking about the Vinaya [BMC: 1 2] [169] tena kho pana samayena chabbaggiyā bhikkhū saṅghamajjhe asammatā vinayaṁ pucchanti. Now on that occasion some Group-of-six monks, being unauthorized, asked about the Vinaya in the midst of the Saṅgha. bhagavato etamatthaṁ ārocesuṁ. They reported the matter to the Blessed One. na bhikkhave saṅghamajjhe asammatena vinayo pucchitabbo …
AN 9:41 Tapussa Sutta | To Tapussa (On Renunciation)
… Yet I’ve heard that in this Dhamma & Vinaya the hearts of the very young monks leap up at renunciation, grow confident, steadfast, & released, seeing it as peace. So right here is where this Dhamma & Vinaya is contrary to the great mass of people: i.e., (this issue of) renunciation.” “This calls for a talk, householder. Let’s go see the Blessed One. Let …
