Lzh Mi Bu Vb Np 18Haste-Cloth
Pāli / Sanskrit:Accekacīvara
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Exposition of the Accekacīvara Sutta (Haste-Cloth)
Background
The Accekacīvara sutta is recorded in the Vinaya Piṭaka of the Pāli Canon, specifically in the Nuns' Disciplinary Code (Bhikkhunī Vibhaṅga). This section prescribes the rules of austere training for female monastics (bhikkhunīs) in the Theravāda Buddhist Sangha.
The title "Accekacīvara" means "hasty robe cloth" - from acceka (hurried, urgent) combined with cīvara (robe cloth, garment). This sutta reflects a specific situation in the management of property among female monastics, concerning the use and administration of monastic robe cloth - one of the four requisites (food, robe cloth, lodging, and medicine).
In the context of the Vinaya Piṭaka, such detailed rules are not trivial matters. They reflect the spirit of the Buddha - on the one hand, teaching disciples to limit greed and serve the practice of meditation; on the other, ensuring that monastics have sufficient basic means to continue on the path of awakening.
Main Content
The Accekacīvara sutta handles a specific legal question: when a female monastic needs new robe cloth, may she use robe cloth that belonged to another female monastic without waiting or asking permission? This question seems simple, but it contains deep issues concerning common property, personal honor, and the order of the Sangha.
According to the spirit of the Theravāda Vinaya Piṭaka, the Buddha taught that the property of monastics is the property of the Sangha (saṃgha), not personal property. However, each monastic is entrusted with the management of some personal property necessary for practice. The matter of "hasty robe cloth" raises the question of the boundary between personal ownership and the right to use common property.
The sutta teaches that if one needs to use another's robe cloth in an urgent or hurried situation, bhikkhunīs must do so with clear consent from the owner of that robe cloth. It may not be taken and used arbitrarily, even within the Sangha.
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