Vinaya Pitaka - Monastic Rules
Bhikkhu Vibhanga - Pācittiya 52: Not to tickle another bhikkhu.
- Translated from the Pali by I.B. Horner.
… at Sāvatthī in the Jeta Grove in Anāthapiṇḍika’s monastery. Now at that time the group of six monks made one of the group of seventeen monks laugh by tickling him with the fingers. This monk, faint and unable to get his breath, died. Those who were modest monks … spread it about, saying:
"How can the group of six monks make a monk laugh by tickling him with the fingers?" …
"Is it true, as is said, that you, monks … with the fingers?"
"It is true, lord."
The enlightened one, the lord, rebuked them, saying:
"How can you, foolish men … with the fingers? It is not, foolish men, for pleasing those who are not (yet) pleased … And thus, monks, this rule of training should be set forth:
"In tickling with the fingers there is an offence of expiation."
Tickling with the fingers means:
if one who is ordained desiring to make laugh one who is ordained, rubs the
body with the body, there is an offence of expiation.
If he thinks that he is ordained when he is ordained, (and) makes him laugh by tickling with the fingers, there is an offence of expiation. If he is in doubt as to whether he is ordained … If he thinks that he is not ordained when he is ordained … an offence of expiation. If he rubs something attached to the body with the body, there is an offence of wrong-doing. If he rubs the body with something attached to the body … wrong-doing. If he rubs something attached to the body with something attached to the body … wrong-doing. If he rubs the body with something that may be cast, there is an offence of wrong-doing. If he rubs something attached to the body with something that may be cast … wrong-doing. If he rubs something that may be cast with something that may be cast, there is an offence of wrong-doing. If he rubs the body of one who is not ordained with the body, there is an offence of wrong-doing. If he rubs something attached to the body with the body … the body with something attached to the body … something attached to the body with something attached to the body … the body with something that may be cast … something attached to the body with something that may be cast … something that may be cast with something that may be cast, there is an offence of wrong-doing. If he thinks that he is ordained when he is not ordained, there is an offence of wrong-doing. If he is in doubt as to whether he is not ordained, there is an offence of wrong-doing. If he thinks that he is not ordained when he is not ordained, there is an offence of wrong-doing.
There is no offence if, not desiring laughter, he rubs (him) if there is something to be done; if he is mad, if he is the first wrong-doer.
1 tena samayena buddho bhagavā sāvatthiyaṃ viharati jetavane anāthapiṇḍikassa ārāme. tena kho pana samayena chabbaggiyā bhikkhū sattarasavaggiyaṃ bhikkhuṃ angulipatodakena hāsesuṃ. so bhikkhu uttanto anassāsako kālamakāsi.
2 ye te bhikkhū appicchā … pe … te ujjhāyanti khiyyanti vipācenti— "kathañhi nāma chabbaggiyā bhikkhū bhikkhuṃ angulipatodakena hāsessantī"ti … pe … "saccaṃ kira tumhe, bhikkhave, bhikkhuṃ angulipatodakena hāsethā"ti? "saccaṃ, bhagavā"ti. vigarahi buddho bhagavā … pe … kathañhi nāma tumhe, moghapurisā, bhikkhuṃ angulipatodakena hāsessatha. netaṃ, moghapurisā, appasannānaṃ vā pasādāya … pe … evañca pana, bhikkhave, imaṃ sikkhāpadaṃ uddiseyyātha—
3 "angulipatodake pācittiyan"ti. (52:101)
4 angulipatodako nāma upasampanno upasampannaṃ hasādhippāyo kāyena kāyaṃ āmasati, āpatti pācittiyassa. upasampanne upasampannasaññī angulipatodakena hāseti, āpatti pācittiyassa. upasampanne vematiko angulipatodakena hāseti, āpatti pācittiyassa. upasampanne anupasampannasaññī angulipatodakena hāseti, āpatti pācittiyassa.
5 kāyena kāyapaṭibaddhaṃ āmasati, āpatti dukkaṭassa. kāyapaṭibaddhena kāyaṃ āmasati, āpatti dukkaṭassa. kāyapaṭibaddhena kāyapaṭibaddhaṃ āmasati, āpatti dukkaṭassa. nissaggiyena kāyaṃ āmasati, āpatti dukkaṭassa. nissaggiyena kāyapaṭibaddhaṃ āmasati, āpatti dukkaṭassa. nissaggiyena nissaggiyaṃ āmasati, āpatti dukkaṭassa.
6 anupasampannaṃ kāyena kāyaṃ āmasati, āpatti dukkaṭassa. kāyena kāyapaṭibaddhaṃ āmasati, āpatti dukkaṭassa. kāyapaṭibaddhena kāyaṃ āmasati, āpatti dukkaṭassa. kāyapaṭibaddhena kāyapaṭibaddhaṃ āmasati, āpatti dukkaṭassa. nissaggiyena kāyaṃ āmasati, āpatti dukkaṭassa. nissaggiyena kāyapaṭibaddhaṃ āmasati, āpatti dukkaṭassa. nissaggiyena nissaggiyaṃ āmasati, āpatti dukkaṭassa. anupasampanne upasampannasaññī, āpatti dukkaṭassa. anupasampanne vematiko, āpatti dukkaṭassa. anupasampanne anupasampannasaññī, āpatti dukkaṭassa.
7 anāpatti— na hasādhippāyo, sati karaṇīye āmasati, ummattakassa, ādikammikassāti.