Chulavagga 4.1

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

CHULAVAGGA (THE MINOR SECTION)

FOURTH KHANDHAKA (THE SETTLEMENT OF DISPUTES AMONG THE FRATERNITY)

Chapter-1.

1. Now at that time the Great Buddha was dwelling at Savatthi, in the Arama(Monastery) of Anathapindika. And at that time the Chabbaggiya Bhikkhus used to carry out the formal Acts--the Tajjaniya, and the Nissaya, and the Pabbajaniya, and the Patisaraniya, and the Ukkhepaniya--against Bhikkhus who were not present.

Then those Bhikkhus who were modest were annoyed, murmured, and became indignant, saying, 'How can the Chabbaggiya Bhikkhus [act thus]?' And those Bhikkhus told the matter to the Lord Buddha.

'Is it true, O Bhikkhus, as they say, that the Chabbaggiya Bhikkhus carry out the (aforesaid) formal Acts against Bhikkhus who are not present?'

'It is true, Lord!'

The Great Buddha rebuked them, saying, 'This is improper (&c., as in I, 1, 2, down to the end).' And when he had thus rebuked them, and had

delivered a dhamma discourse, he addressed the Bhikkhus, and said: 'The formal Acts, O Bhikkhus, the Tajjaniya-, the Nissaya-, the Pabbajaniya-, the Patisaraniya-, and the Ukkhepaniya-kammas, ought not to be carried out against Bhikkhus who are not present. Whosoever does so, shall be guilty of a dukkata offence.'