Bu Sk 5050. Chomping
Pāli / Sanskrit:Capucapukāraka
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Theravāda Collection on Monastic Law The Great Analysis
The chapter on training The subchapter on mouthfuls 50. Chomping
Origin story
At one time the Buddha was staying at Sāvatthī in the Jeta Grove, Anāthapiṇḍika’s Monastery. At that time the monks from the group of six made chomping sounds while eating. …
Final ruling
“‘I will not make a chomping sound while eating,’ this is how you should train.”
One should not make a chomping sound while eating. If a monk, out of disrespect, makes a chomping sound while eating, he commits an offense of wrong conduct.
Non-offenses
There is no offense: if it is unintentional; if he is not mindful; if he does not know; if he is sick; if there is an emergency; if he is insane; if he is the first offender.
The tenth training rule is finished.
The fifth subchapter on mouthfuls is finished.
The “…” is an abbreviation carried over from the Pāli original itself, called peyyāla. The early canon was memorized and recited, so passages repeated verbatim from a preceding discourse were commonly contracted to an elision mark rather than written out in full. Venerable Thích Minh Châu's translation preserves this convention. Some texts therefore look short — but that is the canonical form, not missing content or a truncated translation. The elided passages can be read in full in the preceding discourses of the same chapter.
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