Chulavagga 1.16

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

CHULAVAGGA (THE MINOR SECTION)

FIRST KHANDHAKA III. THE PABBAJANIYA-KAMMA (ACT OF BANISHMENT)

Chapter-16.

1. So the Bhikkhu-Sangha, with Sariputta and Moggallana at their head, proceeded to the Kita Hill, and there carried out the Pabbajaniyakamma against those Bhikkhus who were followers

of Assaji and Punabbasu, to the intent that those Bhikkhus should no longer dwell on the Kita Hill. And they, when subjected by the Sangha to the Pabbajaniya-kamma, did not conduct themselves aright, they did not become subdued, they did not seek for release, they did not ask the Bhikkhus for forgiveness, they reviled them, they found fault with them, saying that they were offending by acting in partiality, in ill-feeling, in folly, and in fear; and they not only departed from the place, but also left the Order.

Those Bhikkhus who were moderate were offended, murmured, and became indignant, saying, 'How can those Bhikkhus who are followers of Assaji and Punabbasu, after having been subjected by the Sangha to the Pabbajaniya-kamma, refuse to conduct themselves aright (&c., as before, down to) leave the Order?' And those Bhikkhus told the matter to the Lord Buddha.

Then the Lord Buddha on that occasion, and in that connection, convened a meeting of the Bhikkhusangha, and asked the Bhikkhus:

'Is it true, O Bhikkhus, as they say, that those Bhikkhus who are followers of Assaji and Punabbasu, after having been subjected by the Sangha to the Pabbajaniya-kamma, refuse (&c., as before, down to) leave the Order.?'

'It is true, Lord!'

'How can those Bhikkhus who (&c., as before, down to) leave the Order? This will not conduce, O Bhikkhus, either to the conversion of the un-converted, or to the increase of the converted; but rather to the unconverted being not converted, and to the turning back of those which have been converted.' And when the Lord Buddha had rebuked those Bhikkhus in various ways, and had delivered a dhamma discourse, he addressed the Bhikkhus, and said:

'Then, O Bhikkhus, let not the Sangha revoke the Pabbajaniya-kamma. There are five things, O Bhikkhus (&c., as before, from Chapter-6, §-2, down to the end of Chapter-7, reading Pabbajaniya for Tajjaniya):

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Here end the eighteen cases in which there ought to be a revocation (of the Pabbajaniya-kamma).