Vinaya (3): The Cullavagga
by T. W. Rhys Davids | 1881 | 137,074 words
The Cullavagga (part of the Vinaya collection) includes accounts of the First and Second Buddhist Councils as well as the establishment of the community of Buddhist nuns. The Cullavagga also elaborates on the etiquette and duties of Bhikkhus....
Cullavagga, Khandaka 10, Chapter 26
1. Now at that time a certain Bhikkhunī first abandoned the precepts, and then threw off the robes[1]. Afterwards she came back, and asked the Bhikkhunīs to admit her into the Order again.
They told this matter to the Blessed One.
'A Bhikkhunī ought not, O Bhikkhus, to abandon the precepts. But by having thrown off the robes she is ipso facto incapable of being a Bhikkhunī.'
2. Now at that time a certain Bhikkhunī, though still wearing the orange-coloured robe, joined a sect of the Titthiyas. Afterwards she came back, and asked the Bhikkhunīs to receive her into the Order again.
They told this matter to the Blessed One. .
'A Bhikkhunī, O Bhikkhus, who, when still wearing the orange-coloured robe, has gone over to the Titthiyas, is not to be received again[2].'
Footnotes and references:
[1]:
On the distinction between these two phrases, see the note on Mahāvagga II, 22, 3.
[2]:
For the similar rule in the case of Bhikkhus, see Mahāvagga I, 38, 1.