San Lo Bi Vb Pd 6Asking for Curd
Pāli / Sanskrit:Dadhiviññāpana
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THE CURD SUTTA (DADHIVIÑÑĀPANA)
Background
The Curd Sutta belongs to the Vinaya of the Pāli Canon, an essential part of the disciplinary system for bhikkhunīs, female monks. The context of the sutta arises from the early stage of the Teaching, when the Buddha had just organized the Sangha community with specific rules to govern the daily life of the monastic collective.
Dadhiviññāpana, asking for curd, is one of the Bhikkhunī Pātimokkha rules, specific offenses that female monks must avoid. This situation concerns asking for or requesting items which, according to the regulations of the discipline, monastics should not ask for on their own initiative from devotees. Curd, yogurt, or curdled milk, is a type of food with high nutritional value.
The arising of this regulation reflects the Buddha’s concern: to protect the purity and financial independence of the Sangha community, while preserving the reverence of the Buddhist lay community. This sutta is recorded in the Saṅghādisesa section, offenses requiring public reconciliation by the Sangha community in order to be purified.
Main Content
The Curd Sutta establishes that a female monk should not on her own request or ask for superior, rich foods such as curd from people who are not close relatives. If a bhikkhunī wishes to enjoy wholesome foods, she must wait for voluntary support from devotees or her benefactors, or make the request through another, especially a male monk or other devotees.
The basic principle is that monastics should accept what is provided without making specific requests. The act of requesting this food is regarded as violating the spirit of the Patimokkhā, because it diminishes the faith of the community and creates the image of a monastic who is impure and too attached to food and taste.
According to this rule, if a female monk requests curd directly from a devotee, she commits a Saṅghādisesa offense, that is, an offense that must be publicly confessed before the community and for which the Sangha community must attest to her restored purity.
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