Mahavagga 9.5

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

MAHAVAGGA

NINTH KHANDHAKA (VALIDITY AND INVALIDITY OF FORMAL ACTS OF THE SANGHA)

Chapter-5.

1. 'In case, O Bhikkhus, there be no offence which a Bhikkhu should see (or, acknowledge as committed by himself), and if the Sangha, or a number of Bhikkhus, or a single person rebuke him (and say): "You have committed an offence, friend; do you see that offence?"--and he replies: "There is no offence, friends, which I should see," and the Sangha pronounces expulsion against him for his refusal to see that offence,--this is an unlawful act.

In case, O Bhikkhus, there be no offence which a Bhikkhu should atone for, &c.

'In case, O Bhikkhus, there be no false doctrine which a Bhikkhu should renounce, &c.

2. 'In case, O Bhikkhus, there be no offence which a Bhikkhu should see, and there be no offence which he should atone for, and if the Sangha, or a number of Bhikkhus, or a single person rebuke him (and say): "You have committed an offence, friend; do you see that offence? Atone for that offence,"--and he replies: "There is no offence, friends, which I should see; there is no offence,

friends, which I should atone for," and the Sangha pronounces expulsion against him for his refusal to see that offence, or for his refusal to atone for that offence,--this is an unlawful act.

6-7. 'In case, O Bhikkhus, there be an offence which a Bhikkhu should see, and if the Sangha, or a number of Bhikkhus, or a single person rebuke him (and say): "You have committed an offence, friend; do you see that offence?"--and he replies: "Yes, friends, I see it," and the Sangha pronounces expulsion against him for his (pretended) refusal to see that offence,--this is an unlawful act.

'In case, O Bhikkhus, there be an offence which a Bhikkhu should atone for, &c.

8-9. 'In case, O Bhikkhus, there be an offence which a Bhikkhu should see, and if the Sangha, or a number of Bhikkhus, or a single person rebuke him (and say): "You have committed an offence, friend; do you see that offence?"--and he replies: "There is no offence, friends, which I should see," and the Sangha pronounces expulsion against him for his refusal to see that offence,--this is a lawful act.'