Mahavagga, Khandaka 9, Chapter 7

1. 'In case, O Bhikkhus, a Bhikkhu be litigious, contentious, quarrelsome, disputatious, and constantly raise questions before the Saṃgha, And the other Bhikkhus say among each other: "This Bhikkhu, friends, is indeed litigious, contentious, &c.; well, let us proceed against him with the tajjaniyakamma^[1]." And they proceed against him with the tajjaniyakamma unlawfully^[2] with an incomplete congregation^[3], and he then goes from that district to another district. There the Bhikkhus say among each other: "Against this Bhikkhu, friends, the Saṃgha has proceeded with the tajjaniyakamma unlawfully with an incomplete congregation; well, let us proceed against him with the tajjaniyakamma." And they proceed against him with the tajjaniyakamma unlawfully with a complete congregation, and he then goes from that district again to- another district. And there the Bhikkhus again say among each other (&c., down to:) and they proceed against him with the tajjaniyakamma lawfully with an incomplete congregation . . . . seemingly lawfully^[4] with an congregation . . . . seemingly lawfully with a complete congregation^[5].

2-5. 'In case, O Bhikkhus, a Bhikkhu be litigious, &c.^[6]

6. 'In case, O Bhikkhus, a Bhikkhu be ignorant, unlearned, a constant offender, unable to discern what is an offence^[7], and lives in lay society, unduly associating himself with lay people. And the other Bhikkhus say among each other: "This Bhikkhu, friends, is indeed ignorant, unlearned, &c.; well, let us proceed against him with the nissayakamma^[8]," and they proceed against him with the nissayakamma unlawfully with an incomplete congregation, &c.^[9]

7. 'In case, O Bhikkhus, a Bhikkhu leads a life hurtful to the laity, and devoted to evil^[10]. And the other Bhikkhus say among each other: "This Bhikkhu, friends, leads a life hurtful to the laity, and devoted to evil; well, let us proceed against him with the pabbājaniyakamma^[11]," &c.^[12]

8. 'In case, O Bhikkhus, a Bhikkhu abuses and reviles lay people. And the other Bhikkhus say among each other: "This Bhikkhu, friends, abuses and reviles lay people; well, let us proceed against him with the paṭisāraṇiyakamma^[13]," &c.2

9-11. 'In case, O Bhikkhus, a Bhikkhu, having committed an offence, refuses to see that offence (committed by himself)^[14]. And the other Bhikkhus say among each other: "This Bhikkhu, friends, has committed an offence and refuses to see that offence; well, let us pronounce expulsion against him for his refusal to see that offence^[15]," &c.^[12]

12-13. 'In case, O Bhikkhus, a Bhikkhu, against whom the Saṃgha has proceeded with the tajjaniyakamma, behaves himself properly, lives modestly, aspires to get clear of his penance, and asks for the revocation of the tajjaniyakamma sentence. And the other Bhikkhus say among each other: "This Bhikkhu, friends, against whom the Saṃgha has proceeded with the tajjaniyakamma, in truth behaves himself properly; he lives modestly, &c.; well, let us revoke the tajjaniyakamma sentence pronounced against him." And they revoke the tajjaniyakamma sentence pronounced against him unlawfully with an incomplete congregation. And he then goes from that district to another district. There the Bhikkhus say among each other: "The tajjaniyakamma sentence, friends, pronounced against this Bhikkhu has been revoked by the Saṃgha unlawfully with an incomplete congregation," &c.^[16]

14. 'In case, O Bhikkhus, a Bhikkhu against whom the Saṃgha has proceeded with the nissayakamma . . . . with the pabbājaniyakamma . . . . with the paṭisāraṇiyakamma . . . . against whom the Saṃgha has pronounced expulsion for his refusal to see an offence . . . . for his refusal to atone for an offence . . . . for his refusal to renounce a false doctrine, behaves himself properly, &c.^[17]

15. 'In case, O Bhikkhus, a Bhikkhu be litigious, contentious, quarrelsome, disputatious, and constantly raise questions before the Saṃgha. And the other Bhikkhus say among each other: "This Bhikkhu, friends, is indeed litigious, contentious, &c.; well, let us proceed against him with the tajjaniyakamma." And they proceed against him with the tajjaniyakamma, unlawfully with an incomplete congregation. Now among the Saṃgha residing in that district a contention is raised whether this is an act performed unlawfully with an incomplete congregation, or an act performed unlawfully with a complete congregation, or an act performed lawfully with an incomplete congregation, or an act performed seemingly law-fully with an incomplete congregation, or an act performed seemingly lawfully with a complete congregation, or an act not performed, badly performed, to be performed again. In this case, O Bhikkhus, the Bhikkhus who say: "It is an act performed unlawfully with an incomplete congregation"—and the Bhikkhus who say: "It is an act not performed, badly performed, to be performed again"—these Bhikkhus are right herein.

16. 'In case, O Bhikkhus, a Bhikkhu be litigious (&c., as in § 15, down to:) and they proceed against him with the tajjaniyakamma unlawfully with a complete congregation . . . . lawfully with an incomplete congregation . . . . seemingly lawfully with an incomplete congregation . . . . seemingly lawfully with a complete congregation. Now among the Saṃgha residing in that district (&c., as in § 15).

17-20. 'In case, O Bhikkhus, a Bhikkhu be ignorant, unlearned,' &c.^[18]

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End of the ninth Khandhaka, which treats of the events in Campā.

Footnotes and references:

[1]:

See Cullavagga I, 1-8.

[2]:

See above, chap. 3, § 3 seq.

[3]:

See above, chap. 3, § 5.

[4]:

See above, chap. 3, § 7.

[5]:

See above, chap. 3, § 8.

[6]:

As in § 1, but with a different arrangement of the five categories on which this exposition is based: unlawfully with an incomplete congregation, unlawfully with a complete congregation, lawfully with an incomplete congregation, seemingly lawfully with an incomplete congregation, seemingly lawfully with a complete congregation. In § 1 these categories are arranged in their natural order; in § 2 the second is placed at the head, then follow the third, fourth, fifth, and finally the first; in § 3 the exposition likewise begins with the third and ends with the second, &c. This arrangement is called 'a wheel' (cakka).

[7]:

See the note at chap. 4, § 9.

[8]:

See Cullavagga I, 9-12.

[9]:

The same five cases and the same kakka as in §§ 1-5.

[10]:

See the 13th Saṃghādisesa Rule.

[11]:

See Cullavagga I, 13-17.

[12]:

As in §§ 1-5 or in § 6.

[13]:

Cullavagga I, 18-24.

[14]:

§ 10: A Bhikkhu, having committed an offence, refuses to atone for that offence. § 11: A Bhikkhu refuses to renounce a false doctrine.

[15]:

§ 10: For his refusal to atone for that offence. § 11: For his refusal to renounce that false doctrine.

[16]:

The analogous five cases with the kakka development as in §§ 1-5.

[17]:

As in §§ 12, 13.

[18]:

The text treats here in §§ 17, 18 of the nissayakamma (see § 6) and of the Saṃghakammas down to the expulsion for a Bhikkhu's refusal to renounce a false doctrine (see §§ 7-11) in the same manner as the tajjaniyakamma is spoken of in §§ 15, 16. Then follows (§§ 19, 20) an exactly analogous exposition about the revocation of these Saṃghakammas, which stands in the same relation to §§ 15-18 in which §§ 12-14 stand to §§ 1-11.