The Bhikkhus Rules
A Guide for Laypeople
by Bhikkhu Ariyesako | 1998 | 50,970 words
The Theravadin Buddhist Monk's Rules compiled and explained by: Bhikkhu Ariyesako Discipline is for the sake of restraint, restraint for the sake of freedom from remorse, freedom from remorse for the sake of joy, joy for the sake of rapture, rapture for the sake of tranquillity, tranquillity for the sake of pleasure, pleasure for the sake of conce...
What Can Be Offered?
As has been mentioned above, the Buddha said that there were four necessities for life — Clothing, Food or edibles, Shelter or lodging and Medicine — so we will use those divisions in the following sections.
There is also a Sutta where it is mentioned that bhikkhus do not accept gifts of gardens, paddy fields and other sorts of land, or draught animals, and other sorts of animals, etc. (EV,II, p.150)