Chulavagga 4.7

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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-7.

1. Now at that time the Chabbaggiya Bhikkhus carried out official acts against Bhikkhus who had not confessed themselves guilty--the Tajjaniya-kamma, or the Nissaya-kamma, or the Pabbajaniya-kamma, or the Patisaraniya-kamma, or the Ukkhepaniya-kamma.

Those Bhikkhus who were moderate were annoyed, murmured, and became indignant, saying, 'How can the Chabbaggiya Bhikkhus (&c., as before).' And those Bhikkhus told the matter to the Lord Buddha.

'Is it true, O Bhikkhus, that the Chabbaggiya Bhikkhus do so?'

'It is true, Lord.'

Then he rebuked them, and when he had delivered a dhamma discourse, he addressed the Bhikkhus, and said:

No official act, O Bhikkhus,--whether the Tajjaniya-kamma, or the Nissaya-kamma, or the Pabbajaniya-kamma, or the Patisaraniya-kamma, or the Ukkhepaniya-kamma,--is to be carried out against Bhikkhus who have not confessed themselves guilty. Whosoever does so, shall be guilty of a dukkata offence.'