Vinaya Pitaka - Monastic Rules
Bhikkhu Vibhanga - Nissaggiya Pācittiya 28: The Training Rule on Haste-Cloth.
- Translated from the Pali by Brahmali Bhikkhu.
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At one time the Buddha, the Master, was staying at Sāvatthī in the Jeta Grove, Anāthapiṇḍika’s Monastery. At that time a minister who was going away sent a messenger to the monks: “Come, bhantes, I wish to give rains-residence cloth."
The monks thought, “The Master has allowed rains-residence cloth for those who have completed the rains residence," and being afraid of wrongdoing they did not go. Then that minister complained and criticised them: “How can the Venerables not come when I send a messenger? I am going out with the army. It is hard to know whether one will live or die."
2 Monks heard the complaints of that minister, and they informed the Master. The Master spoke on the Dhamma and addressed the monks: “Monks, I allow you to receive a haste-cloth, and then store it."
3
Knowing that the Master had made this allowance, some monks received haste-cloth and stored it beyond the robe making season. They kept it tied up in a bundle on a robe rack.
While inspecting the lodgings, Venerable Ānanda saw that cloth, and he asked the monks: “Whose cloth is this?"
“It’s our haste-cloth."
“How long have you stored it?"
They informed him, and Venerrable Ānanda then complained and criticised them: “How can these monks receive haste-cloth and then store it beyond the robe season?"
4 After criticising those monks in many ways, Venerable Ānanda informed the Master. … “Is it true, monks, that you receive haste-cloth and then store is beyond the robe season?" “It’s true, Master." The Buddha, the Master, criticised them: “ … Monks, how can these foolish men receive haste-cloth and then store it beyond the robe season? This will not give rise to confidence in those without it … And, monks, this training rule should be recited thus:
Final ruling
5 “When there are ten days left to the Kattika full moon that ends the first rains residence and haste-cloth becomes available for a monk, he may receive it if he regards it as urgent. He may then store it until the end of the robe season. If he stores it beyond that, he commits an offence entailing relinquishment and confession."
Definitions
6 There are ten days left: until the pavāraṇā ceremony, which is ten days in the future.
7 The Kattika full moon that ends the first rains residence: the Kattikā full moon of the pavāraṇā is so called.
8 Haste-cloth: when someone wants to go out with the army, when someone wants to go away, when someone is sick, when someone is pregnant, when someone without faith acquires faith, when someone without confidence acquires confidence: if that person sends a messenger to the monks, saying, “Come, bhantes, I wish to give rains-residence cloth", this is called a haste-cloth.
9 He may receive it if he regards it as urgent. He may then store it until the end of the robe season: establishing the perception of it as a haste-robe, he may store it.
10The robe season: for one who has not done the kathina ceremony, it is the last month of the rainy season; for one who has done the kathina ceremony, it is the five month period. That is, the last month of the rainy season, plus the four months of the cold season.
11If he stores it beyond that: for one who has not done the kathina ceremony, if he goes beyond the last day of the rainy season, he commits an offence entailing relinquishment and confession. For one who has done the kathina ceremony, if he goes beyond the day on which the kathina season ends, The kathina season ends if the Sangha decides to forgo the kathina privileges, or if he leaves the monastery where he spent the rains residence and he gives up any intention of making a robe before the end of the cold season. See Khandaka 7 (Mv 7). the cloth becomes subject to relinquishment.
The cloth is to be relinquished to a Sangha, a group, or an individual. “And, monks, it is to be relinquished in this way. … To be expanded as in Nissaggiya Pācittiya 1, verses 13 to 17 with appropriate substitutions. … ‘Bhante, this haste-cloth which I have kept beyond the robe season is to be relinquished. I relinquish it to the Sangha.’ … the Sangha should give … the Venerables should give … “I give this cloth back to the Venerable."
Permutations
12If it is haste-cloth and he perceives it as haste-cloth, and he keeps it beyond the robe season, he commits an offence entailing relinquishment and confession. If it is haste-cloth, but he has doubts about it, and he keeps it beyond the robe season, he commits an offence entailing relinquishment and confession. If it is haste-cloth, but he does not perceives it as haste-cloth, and he keeps it beyond the robe season, he commits an offence entailing relinquishment and confession.
If it is undetermined, but he perceives it as determined … If it is not placed under shared ownership, but he perceives it as placed under shared ownership … If it is not given away, but he perceives it as given away … If it is not lost, but he perceives it as lost … If it is not destroyed, but he perceives it as destroyed … If it is not burnt, but he perceives it as burnt … If it is not stolen, but he perceives it as stolen, and he keeps it beyond the robe season, he commits an offence entailing relinquishment and confession.
13If he uses a cloth which is to be relinquished without first relinquishing it, he commits an offence of bad conduct. If it is not a haste-cloth, but he perceives it as haste-cloth, he commits an offence of bad conduct. If it is not a haste-cloth, but he has doubts about it, he commits an offence of bad conduct. If it is not a haste-cloth and he does not perceive it as a haste-cloth, there is no offence.
Non-offences
14There is no offence: if within the robe season the haste-cloth is determined, placed under shared ownership, given away, lost, destroyed, burnt, stolen, or taken on trust; if he is insane; if he is the first offender.
15The eighth rule, the training rule on haste-cloth, is finished.
1 tena samayena buddho bhagavā sāvatthiyaṃ viharati jetavane anāthapiṇḍikassa ārāme. tena kho pana samayena aññataro mahāmatto pavāsaṃ gacchanto bhikkhūnaṃ santike dūtaṃ pāhesi— "āgacchantu bhadantā vassāvāsikaṃ dassāmī"ti. bhikkhū— "vassaṃvuṭṭhānaṃ bhagavatā vassāvāsikaṃ anuññātan"ti, kukkuccāyantā nāgamaṃsu. atha kho so mahāmatto ujjhāyati khiyyati vipāceti— "kathañhi nāma bhadantā mayā dūte pahite nāgacchissanti. ahañhi senāya gacchāmi. dujjānaṃ jīvitaṃ dujjānaṃ maraṇan"ti.
2 assosuṃ kho bhikkhū tassa mahāmattassa ujjhāyantassa khiyyantassa vipācentassa. atha kho te bhikkhū bhagavato etamatthaṃ ārocesuṃ. atha kho bhagavā etasmiṃ nidāne etasmiṃ pakaraṇe dhammiṃ kathaṃ katvā bhikkhū āmantesi— "anujānāmi, bhikkhave, accekacīvaraṃ paṭiggahetvā nikkhipitun"ti.
3 tena kho pana samayena bhikkhū— "bhagavatā anuññātaṃ accekacīvaraṃ paṭiggahetvā nikkhipitun"ti, accekacīvarāni paṭiggahetvā cīvarakālasamayaṃ atikkāmenti. tāni cīvarāni cīvaravaṃse bhaṇḍikābaddhāni tiṭṭhanti. addasa kho āyasmā ānando senāsanacārikaṃ āhiṇḍanto tāni cīvarāni cīvaravaṃse bhaṇḍikābaddhāni tiṭṭhante disvā bhikkhū etadavoca— "kassimāni, āvuso, cīvarāni cīvaravaṃse bhaṇḍikābaddhāni tiṭṭhantī"ti? "amhākaṃ, āvuso, accekacīvarānī"ti. "kīvaciraṃ panāvuso, imāni cīvarāni nikkhittānī"ti? atha kho te bhikkhū āyasmato ānandassa yathānikkhittaṃ ārocesuṃ. āyasmā ānando ujjhāyati khiyyati vipāceti— "kathañhi nāma bhikkhū accekacīvaraṃ paṭiggahetvā cīvarakālasamayaṃ atikkāmessantī"ti.
4 atha kho āyasmā ānando te bhikkhū anekapariyāyena vigarahitvā bhagavato etamatthaṃ ārocesi … pe … — "saccaṃ kira, bhikkhave, bhikkhū accekacīvaraṃ paṭiggahetvā cīvarakālasamayaṃ atikkāmentī"ti? "saccaṃ, bhagavā"ti. vigarahi buddho bhagavā … pe … kathañhi nāma te, bhikkhave, moghapurisā accekacīvaraṃ paṭiggahetvā cīvarakālasamayaṃ atikkāmessanti. netaṃ, bhikkhave, appasannānaṃ vā pasādāya … pe … evañca pana, bhikkhave, imaṃ sikkhāpadaṃ uddiseyyātha—
5 "dasāhānāgataṃ kattikatemāsikapuṇṇamaṃ bhikkhuno paneva accekacīvaraṃ uppajjeyya, accekaṃ maññamānena bhikkhunā paṭiggahetabbaṃ, paṭiggahetvā yāva cīvarakālasamayaṃ nikkhipitabbaṃ. tato ce uttari nikkhipeyya, nissaggiyaṃ pācittiyan"ti. (28:47)
6 dasāhānāgatanti dasāhānāgatāya pavāraṇāya.
7 kattikatemāsikapuṇṇamanti pavāraṇā kattikā vuccati.
8 accekacīvaraṃ nāma senāya vā gantukāmo hoti, pavāsaṃ vā gantukāmo hoti, gilāno vā hoti, gabbhinī vā hoti, assaddhassa vā saddhā uppannā hoti, appasannassa vā pasādo uppanno hoti, so ce bhikkhūnaṃ santike dūtaṃ pahiṇeyya— "āgacchantu bhadantā vassāvāsikaṃ dassāmī"ti, etaṃ accekacīvaraṃ nāma.
9 accekaṃ maññamānena bhikkhunā paṭiggahetabbaṃ paṭiggahetvā yāva cīvarakālasamayaṃ nikkhipitabbanti saññāṇaṃ katvā nikkhipitabbaṃ— "idaṃ accekacīvaran"ti.
10 cīvarakālasamayo nāma anatthate kathine vassānassa pacchimo māso, atthate kathine pañcamāsā.
11 tato ce uttari nikkhipeyyāti anatthate kathine vassānassa pacchimaṃ divasaṃ atikkāmeti, nissaggiyaṃ pācittiyaṃ. atthate kathine kathinuddhāradivasaṃ atikkāmeti, nissaggiyaṃ hoti. nissajjitabbaṃ sanghassa vā gaṇassa vā puggalassa vā. evañca pana, bhikkhave, nissajjitabbaṃ … pe … idaṃ me, bhante, accekacīvaraṃ cīvarakālasamayaṃ atikkāmitaṃ nissaggiyaṃ. imāhaṃ sanghassa nissajjāmīti … pe … dadeyyāti … pe … dadeyyunti … pe … āyasmato dammīti.
12 accekacīvare accekacīvarasaññī cīvarakālasamayaṃ atikkāmeti, nissaggiyaṃ pācittiyaṃ. accekacīvare vematiko cīvarakālasamayaṃ atikkāmeti, nissaggiyaṃ pācittiyaṃ. accekacīvare anaccekacīvarasaññī cīvarakālasamayaṃ atikkāmeti, nissaggiyaṃ pācittiyaṃ. anadhiṭṭhite adhiṭṭhitasaññī … pe … avikappite vikappitasaññī … avissajjite vissajjitasaññī … anaṭṭhe naṭṭhasaññī … avinaṭṭhe vinaṭṭhasaññī … adaḍḍhe daḍḍhasaññī … avilutte viluttasaññī cīvarakālasamayaṃ atikkāmeti, nissaggiyaṃ pācittiyaṃ.
13 nissaggiyaṃ cīvaraṃ anissajjitvā paribhuñjati, āpatti dukkaṭassa. anaccekacīvare accekacīvarasaññī, āpatti dukkaṭassa. anaccekacīvare vematiko, āpatti dukkaṭassa. anaccekacīvare anaccekacīvarasaññī, anāpatti.
14 anāpatti— antosamaye adhiṭṭheti, vikappeti, vissajjeti, nassati, vinassati, ḍayhati, acchinditvā gaṇhanti, vissāsaṃ gaṇhanti, ummattakassa, ādikammikassāti.