Lzh Dg Bi Vb Np 1The Robe-Making Season

– FOUR-PART VINAYA

– NISSAGGIYA PĀCITTIYA

Rule 1

At one time, the Buddha was dwelling in the park of Anāthapiṇḍika, in the Jeta Grove, in the country of Sāvatthī. At that time, the Blessed One, on account of these causes and conditions, assembled the Saṅgha of bhikkhus and said to the bhikkhus:

"From now on, I shall lay down the rules of training for the bhikkhunīs, comprising ten bases of meaning, up to and including the phrase 'for the long endurance of the true Dharma.'"

Wishing to recite the precept, it should be recited thus:

Whatever bhikkhunī, when the robe-making is completed and the Kaṭhina has been dismantled, stores an extra robe for more than ten days without having made a valid transfer — if she exceeds this, it is a nissaggiya pācittiya.

Vietnamese translation: Bhikkhu Thích Đỗng Minh and Thích Đức Thắng. FOUR-PART VINAYA, PART ONE

Chinese translation: Tripiṭaka masters Buddhayaśas and Zhu Fonian.

Revised and annotated: Bhikkhu Thích Nguyên Chứng

(Chinese translation, fascicles 1–21; Vietnamese translation, fascicles 1 and 2)

Buddhist Publication Committee, 2002