The chapter on the observance day (PLI-TV-KD2)

37. The section on “you may go”

“On the observance day you may go from a monastery with monks to one with monks who belong to the same Buddhist sect if you know

you’ll get there on the same day.

On the observance day you may go from a monastery with monks to a non-monastery with monks …

to a monastery or a non-monastery with monks who belong to the same Buddhist sect if you know

you’ll get there on the same day.

On the observance day you may go from a non-monastery with monks to a monastery with monks …

to a non-monastery with monks …

to a monastery or a non-monastery with monks who belong to the same Buddhist sect if you know

you’ll get there on the same day.

On the observance day you may go from a monastery or a non-monastery with monks to a monastery with monks …

to a non-monastery with monks …

to a monastery or a non-monastery with monks who belong to the same Buddhist sect if you know

you’ll get there on the same day.”

38. The identification of persons to be avoided

“You shouldn’t recite the Monastic Code with a nun seated in the gathering.

If you do, you commit an offense of wrong conduct.

You shouldn’t recite the Monastic Code with a trainee nun,

a novice monk,

a novice nun,

one who has renounced the training,

or one who has committed the worst kind of offense seated in the gathering.

If you do, you commit an offense of wrong conduct.

You shouldn’t recite the Monastic Code with one who has been ejected for not recognizing an offense seated in the gathering.

If you do, you should be dealt with according to the rule.

You shouldn’t recite the Monastic Code with one who has been ejected for not making amends for an offense seated in the gathering

or with one who has been ejected for not giving up a bad view seated in the gathering.

If you do, you should be dealt with according to the rule.

You shouldn’t recite the Monastic Code with a paṇḍaka seated in the gathering.

If you do, you commit an offense of wrong conduct.

You shouldn’t recite the Monastic Code with a fake monk,

with one who has previously left to join the monastics of another religion,

with an animal,

with a matricide,

with a patricide,

with a murderer of a perfected one,

with one who has raped a nun,

with one has caused a schism in the Sangha,

with one who has caused the Buddha to bleed,

or with a gynandromorph seated in the gathering.

If you do, you commit an offense of wrong conduct.

You shouldn’t do the observance-day ceremony with a passed-on purity that has expired, except if the gathering is still seated together.²⁷

You shouldn’t do the observance-day ceremony on a non-observance day, except to unify the Sangha.”

The third section for recitation is finished.

The second chapter on the observance day is finished.

This is the summary:

“Ascetics of other religions, and Bimbisāra,

To assemble, silent;

Teaching, seclusion, the Monastic Code,

Daily, then once.

Separately, complete assembly,

Complete assembly, and Maddakucchi;

Monastery zone, large, with river,

One after another, two, and small.

Juniors, and just in Rājagaha,

May-stay-apart zone;

Should establish the monastery zone first,

Should abolish the monastery zone afterwards.

Non-established zones of inhabited areas,

In a river, in the ocean, in a lake;

A splash of water, they made overlap,

And just so they enclosed.

How many procedures, recitation,

Primitive tribes, and even when there were none;

A teaching, Monastic Law, they made threats,

Again Monastic Law, and threatening.

Accusing, when permission is given,

Objecting to what is illegitimate;

Four or five, and others state,

Also if deliberately, one should make an effort.

Included lay people, without being asked,

He did not know at Codanā;

A number did not know,

And straightaway, would not go.

Which, how many, faraway,

And to announce, he forgot;

Dirty, seat, lamp,

Regions, another who is learned.

Straightaway, observance day in the rainy season,

Purity, and procedure, relatives;

Gagga, four, three, two, one,

Offense, shared, he remembered.

The whole Sangha, unsure,

They did not know, one who is learned;

Greater, equal, smaller,

And none of the gathering has left.

Some have left, entire,

And they know, unsure;

Anxious thinking, ‘It’s allowable’,

Knowing, seeing, and they hear.

With resident, newly arrived,

The fourteenth and the fifteenth, again;

The day after, the fifteenth,

Characteristics, belonging to a Buddhist sect, gynandromorph.

That has expired, non-observance day

Except to unify the Sangha;

These summaries are detailed,

Making the topics clear.”

In this chapter there are eighty-six topics.

The chapter on the observance day is finished.