Lzh Mg Bi Pn 38Thirty Eight
Chinese title:三十八
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– MAHĀSĀṂGHIKA VINAYA
– PRECEPTS OF THE BHIKKHUNĪS
– CONCERNING THE OPENING SECTION OF THE MISCELLANEOUS RULES
THE MATTER OF FOOD BETWEEN MONKS AND NUNS.
There are foods that are not pure for a bhikkhu but are pure for a bhikkhunī. There are foods that are not pure for a bhikkhunī but are pure for a bhikkhu. A bhikkhu is permitted to instruct a bhikkhunī to offer food to him, with the exception of gold, silver, cash money, and the five kinds of kappiya-making. A bhikkhunī is permitted to receive food from a bhikkhu, with the exception of gold, silver, cash money, and the five kinds of kappiya-making.
There are three causes by which one loses the status of a bhikkhu: a firm resolve to relinquish the precepts; having an actual offense for which one is expelled by the Saṃgha; the male faculties transforming into female faculties. These are called the three factors that cause the loss of the status of a bhikkhu.
If a bhikkhu's male faculties transform into female faculties, he should be directed to the bhikkhunī monastery, but must not reside in the same room as the bhikkhunīs; rather, he must stay in a separate room. If thereafter the female faculties revert to male faculties, he may return to the community of bhikkhus, is regarded as a fully qualified bhikkhu, and his reckoning of years in the holy life continues as before.
There are three causes by which a bhikkhunī loses the status of a bhikkhunī: a firm resolve to abandon proper conduct; having an actual offense for which one is expelled by the Saṃgha; the female faculties transforming into male faculties — as in the case of the bhikkhu described above.
A bhikkhunī is not permitted to perform the act of pavāraṇā-bhojana (the procedure for eating additional food), but must simply sit down, eat one meal to satisfaction, and stop.
Vietnamese translation: Thích Phước Sơn. MAHĀSĀṂGHIKA VINAYA
Chinese translation: TRIPIṬAKA BUDDHABHADRA OF INDIA
TOGETHER WITH ŚRAMAṆA FAXIAN, TRANSLATED DURING THE EASTERN JIN DYNASTY
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