Chulavagga 10.26

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

CHULAVAGGA (THE MINOR SECTION)

TENTH KHANDHAKA (ON THE DUTIES OF BHIKKHUNIS/NUNS)

Chapter-26.

1. Now at that time a certain Bhikkhuni(Nun) first abandoned the precepts, and then threw off the robes. Afterwards she came back, and asked the Bhikkhunis to admit her into the Order again.

They told this matter to the Lord Buddha.

'A Bhikkhuni ought not, O Bhikkhus, to abandon the precepts. But by having thrown off the robes she is ipso facto incapable of being a Bhikkhuni.'

2. Now at that time a certain Bhikkhuni, though still wearing the orange-coloured robe, joined a sect of the Titthiyas. Afterwards she came back, and asked the Bhikkhunis to receive her into the Order again.

They told this matter to the Lord Buddha. .

'A Bhikkhuni, O Bhikkhus, who, when still wearing the orange-coloured robe, has gone over to the Titthiyas, is not to be received again.'