Chulavagga 1.25

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

CHULAVAGGA (THE MINOR SECTION)

FIRST KHANDHAKA

V. THE UKKHEPANIYA-KAMMAS (ACTS OF SUSPENSION) for not acknowledging, nor atoning for, an offence

Chapter-25.

1. Now at that time the Great Buddha was dwelling at Kosambi, in the Ghosita Arama. And at that time the venerable Channa, when he had committed a fault, was not willing to acknowledge the fault. Those Bhikkhus who were moderate were annoyed, murmured, and became indignant, saying, 'How can the venerable Channa act so?' And those Bhikkhus told the matter to the Lord Buddha.

Then the Lord Buddha on that occasion, and in that connection, after he had convened a meeting of the Bhikkhu-sangha, asked the Bhikkhus:

'Is it true, O Bhikkhus, as they say, that Channa

when he has committed a fault, is not willing to acknowledge the fault?'

'It is true, Lord!'

The Great Buddha rebuked him, saying, 'How, O Bhikkhus, can that foolish one act so? This will not conduce either to the conversion of the unconverted, or to the increase of the converted; but rather to those who have not been converted being not converted, and to the turning back of those who have been converted.'

And when the Lord Buddha had so rebuked him, and had delivered a dhamma discourse, he addressed the Bhikkhus and said: 'Let therefore the Sangha, O Bhikkhus, carry out against Channa the Bhikkhu the apattiya adassane Ukkhepaniya-kamma (the Act of Suspension which follows on not acknowledging a fault) to the intent that he shall not eat or dwell together with the Sangha.

'Now thus, O Bhikkhus, should it be carried out.' [Here follow the formal words of' the Kammavaka as in Chapter-1, 4, with the necessary alterations owing to the difference of the fault and of the K am ma following on it. And at the end of the Kammavaka (after the words 'Thus I understand') the following sentence is added.]

'And send a proclamation, O Bhikkhus, from residence to residence; saying, "Channa the Bhikkhu has been subjected by the Sangha to the Ukkhepaniya-kamma for not acknowledging a fault."'