Lzh Dg Bu Vb Sk 62Not Enter Stupa With Shoes
Pāli / Sanskrit:Not enter stupa with shoes
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– DHARMAGUPTAKA VINAYA
– ŚAIKṢA-KARAṆĪYA
RULE 62
Once, the Buddha was dwelling in the park of Anāthapiṇḍika, in the Jeta Grove, in the country of Śrāvastī. At that time, the group of six bhikkhus entered the Buddha's stupa wearing sandals and shoes.
The bhikkhus saw this, and among them those who were of few desires and contentment, who lived the ascetic practice, who delighted in training in the precepts, who knew shame, reproached the group of six bhikkhus: "Why do you enter the Buddha's stupa wearing sandals and shoes?"
Having reproached them, the bhikkhus went to the Blessed One, paid homage at his feet, and sat to one side. They then reported this matter to the Blessed One in full.
The Blessed One used this matter to assemble the community of bhikkhus and reproached the group of six bhikkhus… as above, up to the passage: "From this day forward, I shall establish the precept for the bhikkhus, for ten reasons, up to the passage: so that the true Dharma may long endure."
The precept should be spoken thus:
One must not enter the Buddha's stupa wearing leather sandals — śaikṣa-karaṇīya.
A bhikkhu who intentionally enters the Buddha's stupa wearing leather sandals commits a duṣkṛta requiring confession. Because it is done intentionally, he commits a duṣkṛta of improper conduct. If done unintentionally, he commits a duṣkṛta.
Bhikṣuṇīs, down to śrāmaṇeras and śrāmaṇerikās — duṣkṛta. This is called an offense.
Non-offense: if one is afflicted with some illness.
Those who do not offend: one who offends for the first time before the precept has been established, one who is mentally deranged, one whose mind is disturbed, one who is tormented and oppressed by pain.
Vietnamese translation: Bhikkhu Thích Đỗng Minh and Thích Đức Thắng. DHARMAGUPTAKA VINAYA, PART ONE
Chinese translation: Tripiṭaka Buddhayaśas and Zhu Fonian.
Revised and annotated by: Bhikkhu Thích Nguyên Chứng
(Chinese translation, fascicles 1–21; Vietnamese translation, fascicles 1–2)
Buddhist Studies Publication Committee, 2002
Prepared for SuttaCentral by Ayya Vimala.
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