Vinaya (2): The Mahavagga
by T. W. Rhys Davids | 1881 | 156,382 words
The Mahavagga (part of the Vinaya collection) includes accounts of Gautama Buddha’s and the ten principal disciples’ awakenings, as well as rules for ordination, rules for reciting the Patimokkha during uposatha days, and various monastic procedures....
Mahavagga, Khandaka 1, Chapter 60
At that time a novice, Kaṇḍaka by name, who was a follower of the venerable Upananda Sakyaputto, had sexual intercourse with a Bhikkhunī, Kaṇḍakā by name. The Bhikkhus were annoyed, &c.: 'How can a novice abandon himself to such conduct?'
They told this thing to the Blessed One.
“I prescribe, O Bhikkhus, that you expel a novice (from the fraternity) in the following ten cases: When he destroys life; when he commits theft; when he commits impurity; when he is a liar; when he drinks strong drinks; when he speaks against the Buddha; when he speaks against the Dhamma; when he speaks against the Saṃgha; when he holds false doctrines; when he has sexual intercourse with Bhikkhunīs[1]. In these ten cases I prescribe, O Bhikkhus, that you expel the novice (from the fraternity).”
Footnotes and references:
[1]:
The case of the novice's committing sexual intercoutse with a Bhikkhunī can have found its place here only by a negligence of the redactor, as it is comprised already in the third of the ten cases (the novice's committing impurity). Buddhaghosa (who of course never admits anything like an inadvertence of the holy Theras by whom the Vinaya is compiled) says that the third case and the tenth are distinguished here, because a person that has simply committed an impurity may receive the ordination, if he is willing to refrain himself in future; whilst a bhikkhunīdūsaka cannot be ordained in any case (see chap. 67).