Xct Mu Bi Pm Sk 2Nātyutkṛṣtaṁ nivāsayiṣyāma
Pāli / Sanskrit:Nātyutkṛṣtaṁ nivāsayiṣyāma
Save your scripture progress
Create a free account to save scriptures, track progress, and continue your daily learning path.
Exposition of the Nātyutkṛṣtaṁ Nivāsayiṣyāma Sutta
Background
This text belongs to the Vinaya Piṭaka of the Pāli Canon, the section of teachings on discipline for the community of monks and nuns. The Vinaya Piṭaka is not a collection of dry prohibitions, but a historical record of how each rule arose from concrete situations in the life of the Buddha and his disciples. Every text in the Vinaya Piṭaka begins from a practical story: “what circumstance led the Buddha to establish these disciplinary rules.”
The text “Nātyutkṛṣtaṁ nivāsayiṣyāma” (Pāli: “Nātyutkṛṣṭaṁ”) concerns the management of lodging for the monastic community. In the context of early Buddhism, monastics had no permanent homes but lived by alms and stayed temporarily in monasteries, forest dwellings, or places offered by laypeople. Problems arose when some monastics did not respect their place of residence or did not manage these shelters well.
Main Content
The title carries the meaning: “We shall allow others to dwell in places that are neither too dark nor too open and bright.” This is the statement of monastics discussing how to arrange suitable lodging. The text records the Buddha’s regulations on arranging dwelling places for monastics so that they accord with the nature of Buddhist practice.
The Vinaya Piṭaka records that the Buddha instructed how to choose a dwelling place so that it is not too dark, avoiding darkness that makes the mind uneasy, and not too open and bright, avoiding attention from outsiders that causes distraction. The spirit of this regulation is: a dwelling place should support practice and not cause disturbance or obstruction.
This rule is also related to respect for the safety of bhikkhunīs, especially in dwellings that need to protect their honor and mental focus. When lodging is arranged properly, monastics can peacefully recite, meditate, and study the Dharma without fear or obstruction.
🌏 The Buddhist canon is vast — some sūtras (such as comparative Vinaya across schools, or untranslated Tibetan-canon texts) have to this day NEVER been translated into Vietnamese or English by anyone, scholars included. Rather than leave it blank, Inti AI offers a FAITHFUL summary grounded in the tradition — from the sūtra's title, origin and essence — so you can still reach this rare part of the treasury. Whenever an original translation exists, the app shows the original first.
Translations belong to the translator/source credited above. The bilingual compilation, presentation, and AI translations compiled by Inti are © Inti Foundation. Please attribute when quoting; do not bulk-copy or use commercially without permission.