Lzh Dg Bi Vb Pc 133What again

– DHARMAGUPTAKA VINAYA

– PĀCITTIYA

RULE 133

A. ORIGIN STORY

At one time, the Blessed One was dwelling in the garden of Anāthapiṇḍika, in the Jeta Grove, at Śrāvastī. At that time there was a foolish bhikkhunī who was unable to be trained; she went to the Saṅgha to request that the full ordination be conferred upon someone. The other bhikkhunīs admonished her:

"Sister, stop! Do not go to the Saṅgha to request that the full ordination be conferred upon someone."

The bhikkhunī went to the Saṅgha to request that the full ordination be conferred upon someone, but the Saṅgha did not grant approval. She then said:

"The bhikkhunīs are partial, are angry, are fearful, and are without discernment. They grant it to those they favor and refuse it to those they do not favor."

The bhikkhunīs heard this, and among them were those of few desires and contentment, who lived the austere practices, delighted in training in the precepts, and had a sense of shame; they reproached the bhikkhunīs: "How is it that you, who are foolish, went to the Saṅgha to request that the full ordination be conferred upon someone, and then said: 'The bhikkhunīs are partial, are angry, are fearful, and are without discernment; they grant it to those they favor and refuse it to those they do not favor'?"

The bhikkhunīs came and reported the matter to the bhikkhus. The bhikkhus reported it to the Blessed One. The Blessed One, on account of this circumstance, convened the assembly of bhikkhus and rebuked the bhikkhunīs:

"You have acted wrongly; this is not proper conduct, not the conduct of a renunciant, not pure conduct, not conforming conduct, and it is something that should not be done. You who are foolish — how is it that you went to the Saṅgha to request that the full ordination be conferred upon someone? The bhikkhunīs admonished you: 'Sister, stop! Do not go to the Saṅgha to request that the full ordination be conferred upon someone.' Yet you said: 'The bhikkhunīs are partial, are angry, are fearful, and are without discernment; they grant it to those they favor and refuse it to those they do not favor.'"

After the Blessed One had rebuked them with numerous expedient means, he said to the bhikkhus:

"These bhikkhunīs are a ground where many seeds of the āsavas are sown; they are the first to commit this offense. From now on, I shall lay down a training rule for the bhikkhunīs, comprising ten bases of meaning, up to and including the phrase 'so that the true Dharma may long endure.'"

The rule should be recited as follows:

Whatever bhikkhunī, when the Saṅgha has not granted permission to confer the full ordination upon someone, says: "The Saṅgha is partial, is angry, is fearful, and is without discernment; they grant it to whomever they wish and refuse it to whomever they wish," — pācittiya.

B. ANALYSIS OF THE RULE

Bhikkhunī: as defined above.

Saṅgha: as defined above.

Has not granted permission: the Saṅgha says, "Sister, stop! Do not request that the full ordination be conferred upon someone." That bhikkhunī, not having been granted permission by the Saṅgha to confer the full ordination upon someone, says: "The bhikkhunīs are partial, are angry, are fearful, and are without discernment; they grant it to those they favor and refuse it to those they do not favor" — if said distinctly, pācittiya. If said indistinctly, dukkaṭa.

For a bhikkhu, dukkaṭa. This is called an offense.

Non-offense: if the matter is in fact true — that there is partiality, anger, fear, and lack of discernment, granting it to those they favor and refusing it to those they do not favor; or if spoken in jest, spoken hastily, spoken in a secluded place, spoken to oneself, spoken in a dream, or if intending to say one thing one says another by mistake — in all such cases there is no offense.

Those who do not commit an offense: one who commits the offense for the first time before the rule has been promulgated; one who is mad, of disturbed mind, or afflicted and overwhelmed by pain.

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

Chinese translation: Tripiṭaka masters Buddhayaśas and Zhu Fonian.

Revised and annotated by: Bhikkhu Thích Nguyên Chứng

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

Buddhist Publication Committee, 2002