Chulavagga 3.35

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Adapted from the Translation by T. W. Rhys Davids and Hermann Oldenberg

CHULAVAGGA (THE MINOR SECTION)

THIRD KHANDHAKA (PROBATION AND PENANCE - CONTINUED)

Chapter-35.

1. 'And in case, O Bhikkhus, a Bhikkhu is guilty of a number of Sanghadisesa offences--definite, and not definite--of one designation, and of various designations--similar to each other, and dissimilar--connected with each other, and disconnected. He asks the Sangha for an inclusive probation on account of those offences. The Sangha imposes upon him an inclusive probation on account of those offences. He undergoing that probation is guilty meanwhile of a number of Sanghadisesa offences, definite ones, which he does not conceal. He asks the Sangha to throw him back on account of those intervening offences to the commencement (of his term of probation). The Sangha [does so] by a lawful proceeding that cannot be quashed, and fit for the occasion; and it also imposes a Manatta upon him, but by an unlawful proceeding, and then by an unlawful proceeding rehabilitates him. That Bhikkhu, O Bhikkhus, is not purified from those offences.

And in case, O Bhikkhus, a Bhikkhu is guilty of a number of Sanghadisesa offences--definite, and not definite--of one designation, and of various designations--similar to each other, and dissimilar--connected with each other, and disconnected. And he asks the Sangha for an inclusive probation on account of those offences. The Sangha imposes upon him an inclusive probation on account of those offences. He undergoing that probation is guilty meanwhile of a number of Sanghadisesa offences, definite ones, which he does conceal. He asks the Sangha to throw him back on account of those intervening offences to the commencement (of his term of probation). The Sangha [does so] by a lawful proceeding that cannot be quashed, and fit for the occasion; and it also imposes upon him an inclusive probation by a lawful proceeding, and imposes upon him a Manatta, but by an unlawful proceeding, and by an unlawful proceeding it rehabilitates him. That Bhikkhu, O Bhikkhus, is not purified from those offences.'

[The same decision is given if, of the intervening offences, all of which are definite, some have been concealed, and some not concealed.]

2. [The same if the intervening offences have been not definite and not concealed, or not definite and concealed, or all not definite but some concealed and some not concealed, or, all not concealed but some definite and some not definite, or all concealed

but some definite and some not definite, or some definite and some not definite and some concealed and some not concealed.]

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Here end the nine principal cases (which serve as a basis for the variations in the following chapter) in which a Bhikkhu is not purified (by undergoing a term of probation).