Vinaya Pitaka - Monastic Rules
Bhikkhu Vibhanga - Pācittiya 88: Not to use couches or chairs covered with cotton.
- 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 had a couch and a chair made covered with cotton. People, having seen (this) as they were touring the dwelling-places, looked down upon, criticised, spread it about, saying:
"How can the recluses, sons of the Sakyans, have a couch and a chair made covered with cotton, like householders who enjoy pleasures of the senses?" Monks heard these people who … spread it about. Those who were modest monks … spread it about, saying:
"How can this group of six monks have a couch and a chair made covered with cotton?" …
"Is it true, as is said, that you, monks, had … covered with cotton?" "It is true, lord."
The enlightened one, the lord, rebuked them, saying:
"How can you, foolish men, have a couch and a chair made covered with cotton? It is not, foolish men, for pleasing those who are not (yet) pleased … And thus, monks, this rule of training should be set forth:
Whatever monk should have a couch or a chair made covered with cotton, there is an offence of expiation involving tearing off."
Whatever means: … monk is to be understood in this case.
Couch means: there are four (kinds of) couch …
Chair means: there are four (kinds of) chair … one with removable legs.
Cotton means: there are three (kinds of) cotton: cotton from trees, cotton from creepers, cotton from grass.
Should have made means: if he makes (it) or causes it to be made, in the business there is an offence of wrongdoing; having torn it off on acquisition, an offence of expiation is to be confessed.
If what was incompletely executed by himself he has finished by himself … If he makes others finish what was incompletely finished by others, there is an offence of expiation. If he makes it or causes it to be made for another, there is an offence of wrong-doing. If, having acquired what was made for another, he makes use of it, there is an offence of wrong-doing.
There is no offence if it is for a binding, for a girdle, for a shoulder-strap, for a bag for carrying the bowl in, for a water-strainer; if he is making a squatting-mat; if, having acquired what was made for another, having torn it off, he makes use of it; 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 mañcampi pīṭhampi tūlonaddhaṃ kārāpenti. manussā vihāracārikaṃ āhiṇḍantā passitvā ujjhāyanti khiyyanti vipācenti— "kathañhi nāma samaṇā sakyaputtiyā mañcampi pīṭhampi tūlonaddhaṃ kārāpessanti, seyyathāpi gihī kāmabhogino"ti.
2 assosuṃ kho bhikkhū tesaṃ manussānaṃ ujjhāyantānaṃ khiyyantānaṃ vipācentānaṃ. ye te bhikkhū appicchā … pe … te ujjhāyanti khiyyanti vipācenti— "kathañhi nāma chabbaggiyā bhikkhū mañcampi pīṭhampi tūlonaddhaṃ kārāpessantī"ti … pe … "saccaṃ kira tumhe, bhikkhave, mañcampi pīṭhampi tūlonaddhaṃ kārāpethā"ti? "saccaṃ, bhagavā"ti. vigarahi buddho bhagavā … pe … kathañhi nāma tumhe, moghapurisā, mañcampi pīṭhampi tūlonaddhaṃ kārāpessatha. netaṃ, moghapurisā, appasannānaṃ vā pasādāya … pe … evañca pana, bhikkhave, imaṃ sikkhāpadaṃ uddiseyyātha—
3 "yo pana bhikkhu mañcaṃ vā pīṭhaṃ vā tūlonaddhaṃ kārāpeyya, uddālanakaṃ pācittiyan"ti. (88:137)
4 yo panāti yo yādiso … pe … bhikkhūti … pe … ayaṃ imasmiṃ atthe adhippeto bhikkhūti.
5 mañco nāma cattāro mañcā— masārako, bundikābaddho, kuḷīrapādako, āhaccapādako.
6 pīṭhaṃ nāma cattāri pīṭhāni— masārakaṃ, bundikābaddhaṃ, kuḷīrapādakaṃ, āhaccapādakaṃ.
7 tūlaṃ nāma tīṇi tūlāni— rukkhatūlaṃ, latātūlaṃ, poṭakitūlaṃ.
8 kārāpeyyāti karoti vā kārāpeti vā, payoge dukkaṭaṃ. paṭilābhena uddāletvā pācittiyaṃ desetabbaṃ.
9 attanā vippakataṃ attanā pariyosāpeti, āpatti pācittiyassa. attanā vippakataṃ parehi pariyosāpeti, āpatti pācittiyassa. parehi vippakataṃ attanā pariyosāpeti, āpatti pācittiyassa. parehi vippakataṃ parehi pariyosāpeti, āpatti pācittiyassa.
10 aññassatthāya karoti vā kārāpeti vā, āpatti dukkaṭassa. aññena kataṃ paṭilabhitvā paribhuñjati, āpatti dukkaṭassa.
11 anāpatti— āyoge, kāyabandhane, aṃsabaddhake, pattatthavikāya, parissāvane, bibbohanaṃ karoti, aññena kataṃ paṭilabhitvā uddāletvā paribhuñjati, ummattakassa, ādikammikassāti.