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Table of Contents

  • Cover
  • BMC I: The Pāṭimokkha Rules
    • Titlepage
    • Copyright
    • 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
      • 1
      • 2
      • 3
      • 4
    • Saṅghādisesa
      • 1
      • 2
      • 3
      • 4
      • 5
      • 6
      • 7
      • 8
      • 9
      • 10
      • 11
      • 12
      • 13
    • Aniyata
      • 1
      • 2
    • Nissaggiya Pācittiya
      • One: The Robe-cloth Chapter
        • 1
        • 2
        • 3
        • 4
        • 5
        • 6
        • 7
        • 8
        • 9
        • 10
      • Two: The Silk Chapter
        • 11
        • 12
        • 13
        • 14
        • 15
        • 16
        • 17
        • 18
        • 19
        • 20
      • Three: The Bowl Chapter
        • 21
        • 22
        • 23
        • 24
        • 25
        • 26
        • 27
        • 28
        • 29
        • 30
    • Pācittiya
      • One: The Lie Chapter
        • 1
        • 2
        • 3
        • 4
        • 5
        • 6
        • 7
        • 8
        • 9
        • 10
      • Two: The Living Plant Chapter
        • 11
        • 12
        • 13
        • 14
        • 15
        • 16
        • 17
        • 18
        • 19
        • 20
      • Three: The Exhortation Chapter
        • 21
        • 22
        • 23
        • 24
        • 25
        • 26
        • 27
        • 28
        • 29
        • 30
      • Four: The Food Chapter
        • Staple foods
        • Non-staple foods
        • Juice drinks
        • The five tonics
        • Medicines
        • Keeping and consuming
        • Mixed foods
        • 31
        • 32
        • 33
        • 34
        • 35
        • 36
        • 37
        • 38
        • 39
        • 40
      • Five: The Naked Ascetic Chapter
        • 41
        • 42
        • 43
        • 44
        • 45
        • 46
        • 47
        • 48
        • 49
        • 50
      • Six: The Alcoholic Drink Chapter
        • 51
        • 52
        • 53
        • 54
        • 55
        • 56
        • 57
        • 58
        • 59
        • 60
      • Seven: The Animal Chapter
        • 61
        • 62
        • 63
        • 64
        • 65
        • 66
        • 67
        • 68
        • 69
        • 70
      • Eight: The In-accordance-with-the-Rule Chapter
        • 71
        • 72
        • 73
        • 74
        • 75
        • 76
        • 77
        • 78
        • 79
        • 80
        • 81
        • 82
      • Nine: The Valuable Chapter
        • 83
        • 84
        • 85
        • 86
        • 87
        • 88
        • 89
        • 90
        • 91
        • 92
    • Pāṭidesanīya
      • 1
      • 2
      • 3
      • 4
    • Sekhiya
      • One: The 26 Dealing with Proper Behavior
        • 1 [2]
        • 3 [4]
        • 5 [6]
        • 7 [8]
        • 9 [10]
        • 11 [12]
        • 13 [14]
        • 15 [16]
        • 17 [18]
        • 19 [20]
        • 21 [22]
        • 23 [24]
        • 25
        • 26
      • Two: The 30 Dealing with Food
        • 27
        • 28
        • 29
        • 30
        • 31
        • 32
        • 33
        • 34
        • 35
        • 36
        • 37
        • 38
        • 39
        • 40
        • 41
        • 42
        • 43
        • 44
        • 45
        • 46
        • 47
        • 48
        • 49
        • 50
        • 51
        • 52
        • 53
        • 54
        • 55
        • 56
      • Three: The 16 Dealing with Teaching Dhamma
        • 57
        • 58
        • 59
        • 60
        • 61 [62]
        • 63
        • 64
        • 65
        • 66
        • 67
        • 68
        • 69
        • 70
        • 71
        • 72
      • Four: The 3 Miscellaneous Rules
        • 73
        • 74
        • 75
    • Adhikaraṇa-samatha
      • 1
      • 2
      • 3
      • 4
      • 5
      • 6
      • 7
    • Appendices
      • I. Controversial points: Dawn and dawnrise
      • II. Controversial points: Sugata measures
      • III. Controversial points: Meals
      • IV. Pali formulae: Determination
      • V. Pali formulae: Shared ownership
      • VI. Pali formulae: Forfeiture
      • VII. Pali formulae: Confession
      • VIII. Pali formulae: Transaction Statements
        • Rebukes
        • Verdicts
        • Others
      • IX. Thullaccaya offenses
        • Thullaccayas in the Sutta Vibhaṅga
        • Thullaccayas in the Khandhakas
      • X. A pupil’s duties as attendant to his mentor
    • Glossary
    • Rule Index
      • Right Speech
        • Lying
        • Divisive speech
        • Abusive speech
        • Idle chatter
      • Right Action
        • Killing
        • Taking what is not given
        • Sexual Misconduct
      • Right Livelihood
        • General
        • Robes
        • Food
        • Lodgings
        • Medicine
        • Money
        • Bowls and other requisites
      • Communal Harmony
      • The Etiquette of a Contemplative
    • Select Bibliography
    • Addendum
  • BMC II: The Khandhaka Rules
    • Titlepage
    • Copyright
    • Abbreviations
    • Preface
    • The Khandhakas
      • Format
      • Rules
      • Discussions
    • General
      • Personal Grooming
        • Discussions
          • Bathing
          • Care of the teeth
          • Hair of the head
          • Beard
          • Face
          • Hair of the body
          • Nails
          • Ears
          • Ornamentation
        • Rules
      • Cloth Requisites
        • Discussions
          • Robe material
          • Making Robes: Sewing Instructions
          • Repairing Robes
          • Making Robes: Sewing Equipment
          • Making Robes: Dyeing
          • Washing Robes
          • Other Cloth Requisites
          • Dressing
        • Rules
      • Alms Bowls & Other Accessories
        • Discussions
          • Alms bowls
          • Footwear
          • Water strainers
          • Miscellaneous accessories
        • Rules
      • Food
        • Discussions
          • Cooking & storing foods
          • Eating
          • Famine allowances
          • Garlic
          • Green gram
        • Rules
      • Medicine
        • Discussions
          • Support medicine
          • The five tonics
          • Life-long medicines
          • Specific treatments
          • Medical procedures
          • The Great Standards
        • Rules
      • Lodgings
        • Discussions
          • Outdoor resting spots
          • Dwellings
          • Furnishings
          • Etiquette with regard to lodgings
        • Rules
      • Monastery Buildings & Property
        • Discussions
          • Monasteries
          • Buildings
          • Monastery property
          • Cetiya property
        • Rules
      • Respect
        • Discussions
          • Paying homage
          • Teaching Dhamma
          • Exceptions to seniority
          • Responding to criticism
          • Jokes
        • Rules
      • Protocols
        • Incoming Bhikkhus’ Protocol
        • Resident Bhikkhus’ Protocol
        • Departing Bhikkhus’ Protocol
        • Anumodanā Protocol
        • Meal-hall Protocol
        • Alms-going Protocol
        • Wilderness Protocol
        • Lodging Protocol
        • Sauna Protocol
        • Restroom Protocol
        • Protocol toward one’s Preceptor
        • Protocol toward one’s Pupil
        • Cullavagga XII.2.8
      • Misbehavior
        • Discussions
          • Bad habits
          • Wrong livelihood
          • Cruelty
          • Destructive behavior
          • Self-mutilation
          • Charms & omens
          • Displaying psychic powers
          • Off-limits
        • Rules
      • Rains-residence
        • Discussions
          • Periods of residence
          • Entering for the Rains
          • Breaking one’s promise
          • Determination
          • Duration
          • Seven-day business
          • Obstacles
          • Non-dhamma agreements
          • Gifts of cloth
          • Privileges
        • Rules
    • Community Transactions
      • Community Transactions
        • Discussions
          • The validity of the object
          • The validity of the transaction statement
          • The validity of the assembly
          • The validity of the territory
          • Offenses
        • Rules
      • Territories
        • Discussions
          • Territories not tied off
          • Tied-off territories
        • Rules
      • Ordination
        • Discussions
          • Going-forth & Acceptance
          • The validity of the object
          • The validity of the assembly
          • The validity of the transaction statement
        • Rules
      • Uposatha
        • Discussions
          • Uposatha days
          • Location
          • Unity
          • Excluded individuals
          • Preliminaries
          • Confession
          • Reciting the Pāṭimokkha
          • Mutual purity
          • Purity
          • Determination
          • Borderline quorums
          • Traveling
          • Special cases: unity
          • Special cases: accusations
          • Special cases: canceling the Pāṭimokkha
        • Rules
      • Invitation
        • Discussions
          • Invitation days
          • Conveying invitation
          • Preliminary duties
          • Quorum
          • Community Invitation
          • Mutual Invitation
          • Determination
          • Borderline quorums
          • Accusations
          • Special cases: two groups
          • Special cases: delayed Invitation
          • Special cases: hostile neighbors
          • Other issues
        • Rules
      • Kaṭhina
        • Discussions
          • Time period
          • The donor
          • The cloth
          • Transaction
          • Making the robe
          • Spreading
          • Privileges
          • Dismantling the kaṭhina
        • Rules
      • Community Officials
        • Discussions
          • General qualifications
          • Robe-cloth officials
          • Food officials
          • Lodging officials
          • Miscellaneous
          • Work supervisors
          • Removing officials from office
        • Rules
      • Penance & Probation
        • Discussions
          • Formal statements & transactions
          • Penance
          • Probation
          • Multiple offenses
          • Shared offenses
          • Interruptions
        • Rules
      • Disciplinary Transactions
        • Discussions
          • Discipline for offenses
          • Relations with the laity
          • Other disciplinary measures
          • Abuse of the system
        • Rules
      • Schism
        • Discussions
          • Behavior during a schism
          • Ending schism
        • Rules
      • Inheritance
        • Discussions
          • Belongings
          • Funerals
        • Rules
    • Co-religionists
      • Bhikkhunīs
        • Discussions
          • Communal relations
          • Individual relations
        • Rules
      • Novices
        • Discussions
          • Training
          • Dependence
          • Punishment
          • Expulsion
        • Rules
    • Appendices
      • General Transaction Statements
        • A. Territories (sīmā)
        • B. Uposatha halls
        • C. A food storage place (Mv.VI.33.2)
        • D. Community officials
        • E. Kaṭhina
        • F. Giving robes & bowl to those who tended the sick
        • G. Complete motions for shortened community invitations
        • H. Invitation-delay
        • I. An insanity authorization (Mv.II.25.3-4)
      • Going-forth & Acceptance
        • A. Going-forth (Mv.I.54.3)
        • B. Acceptance
        • C. Accepting a pair of applicants:
        • D. Admonition
        • E. Probation for an applicant previously ordained in another religion:
      • Vuṭṭhāna-vidhī for Saṅghādisesa Offenses
        • A. For one unconcealed offense
        • B. For one concealed offense
        • C. Aggha-samodhāna-parivāsa (Combined Probation)
        • D. Missaka-samodhāna-parivāsa (Mixed Combination for Offenses of Different Bases)
        • E. Odhāna-samodhāna (Nullifying Combination) ( = Mūlāya paṭikassanā—Sending Back to the Beginning)
        • F. Suddhanta-parivāsa (Purifying Probation)
      • Disciplinary Transactions
        • A. Censure
        • B. Further punishment
        • C. Demotion
        • D. Banishment
        • E. Reconciliation
        • F. Suspension for not seeing an offense
        • G. Suspension for not making amends for an offense
        • H. Suspension for not relinquishing an evil view
        • I. Rescinding disciplinary acts
        • J. Overturning the bowl
      • Technical Terms
        • A. Sampatti: The Validity of Community Transactions
        • B. Saṁvāsa: Separate & Common Affiliation
        • C. Saṅghassa kaṭhinaṁ: The Community’s Kaṭhina
        • D. Anāmāsa
        • E. Agocara: Improper Range
    • Glossary
    • Select Bibliography

Copyright

third edition, revised: 2025 Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu

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