Pācittiya 67: The Training Rule on Giving Upasampada to a Married Woman More Than Twelve Years Old, Before She has Two Years Training and Without the Community's Authorisation.
- Translated from the Pali by Bhikkhu Brahmali. (More copyright information)
Origin story
1At one time the Buddha was staying at Sāvatthī in the Jeta Grove, Anāthapiṇḍika’s Monastery. At that time the nuns were giving the full admission to married girls who were more than twelve years old and who had trained in the six rules for two years, but who had not been approved by the Sangha. The nuns said, “Come, trainee nuns, find out about this,” “Give this,” “Bring this,” “There’s need for this,” or “Make this allowable.” But they replied, “Venerables, we’re not trainee nuns. We’re nuns.”
2The nuns of few desires complained and criticized them, “How can nuns give the full admission to married girls who are more than twelve years old and who have trained for two years in the six rules, but who haven’t been approved by the Sangha?” … “Is it true, monks, that nuns do this?”
“It’s true, Sir.”
The Buddha rebuked them … “How can nuns do this? This will affect people’s confidence …” After rebuking them … he gave a teaching and addressed the monks:
“Monks, approval should be given for the full admission of a married girl who is more than twelve years old and who has trained for two years in the six rules.
And it should be given like this. After approaching the Sangha of nuns, that married girl who is more than twelve years old should arrange her upper robe over one shoulder and pay respect at the feet of the nuns. She should then squat on her heels, raise her joined palms, and say, ‘Venerables, I, the married girl so-and-so, who is more than twelve years old and who has trained for two years in the six rules under Venerable so-and-so, ask the Sangha for approval to be fully admitted.’ And she should ask a second and a third time.
A competent and capable nun should then inform the Sangha:
3‘Please, Venerables, I ask the Sangha to listen. This married girl so-and-so, who is more than twelve years old and who has trained for two years in the six rules under Venerable so-and-so, is asking the Sangha for approval to be fully admitted. If it seems appropriate to the Sangha, the Sangha should give approval for the married girl so-and-so, who is more than twelve years old and who has trained for two years in the six rules under Venerable so-and-so, to be fully admitted. This is the motion.
4Please, Venerables, I ask the Sangha to listen. This married girl so-and-so, who is more than twelve years old and who has trained for two years in the six rules under Venerable so-and-so, is asking the Sangha for approval to be fully admitted. The Sangha gives approval for the married girl so-and-so, who is more than twelve years old and who has trained for two years in the six rules under Venerable so-and-so, to be fully admitted. Any nun who approves of giving approval for the married girl so-and-so, who is more than twelve years old and who has trained for two years in the six rules under Venerable so-and-so, to be fully admitted should remain silent. Any nun who doesn’t approve should speak up.
5The Sangha has given approval for the married girl so-and-so, who is more than twelve years old and who has trained for two years in the six rules under Venerable so-and-so, to be fully admitted. The Sangha approves and is therefore silent. I’ll remember it thus.’”
6Then, after rebuking those nuns in many ways, the Buddha spoke in dispraise of being difficult to support … “And, monks, the nuns should recite this training rule like this:
Final ruling
7‘If a nun gives the full admission to a married girl who is more than twelve years old and who has trained for two years in the six rules, but who has not been approved by the Sangha, she commits an offense entailing confession.’”
Definitions
8A: whoever … Nun: … The nun who has been given the full ordination in unanimity by both Sanghas through a legal procedure consisting of one motion and three announcements that is irreversible and fit to stand—this sort of nun is meant in this case.
9Who is more than twelve years old: who has reached twelve years of age.
A married girl: one who has gone to the place of a man is what is meant.
Two years: two twelve-month periods.
Who has trained: who has trained in the six rules.
Who has not been approved: approval to be fully admitted has not been given though a legal procedure consisting of one motion and one announcement.
Gives the full admission: gives the full ordination.
10If, intending to give the full admission, she searches for a group, a teacher, a bowl, or a robe, or she establishes a monastery zone, she commits an offense of wrong conduct. After the motion, she commits an offense of wrong conduct. After each of the first two announcements, she commits an offense of wrong conduct. When the last announcement is finished, the preceptor commits an offense entailing confession, and the group and the teacher commit an offense of wrong conduct.
Permutations
11If it is a legitimate legal procedure, and she perceives it as such, and she gives the full admission, she commits an offense entailing confession. If it is a legitimate legal procedure, but she is unsure of it, and she gives the full admission, she commits an offense entailing confession. If it is a legitimate legal procedure, but she perceives it as illegitimate, and she gives the full admission, she commits an offense entailing confession.
12If it is an illegitimate legal procedure, but she perceives it as legitimate, she commits an offense of wrong conduct. If it is an illegitimate legal procedure, but she is unsure of it, she commits an offense of wrong conduct. If it is an illegitimate legal procedure, and she perceives it as such, she commits an offense of wrong conduct.
Non-offenses
13There is no offense: if she gives the full admission to a married girl who is more than twelve years old and who has trained in the six rules for two years and who has been approved by the Sangha; if she is insane; if she is the first offender.
The seventh training rule is finished.
1p_2V_3255, msdiv1101Tena samayena buddho bhagavā sāvatthiyaṁ viharati jetavane anāthapiṇḍikassa ārāme. Tena kho pana samayena bhikkhuniyo paripuṇṇadvādasavassaṁ gihigataṁ dve vassāni chasu dhammesu sikkhitasikkhaṁ saṁghena asammataṁ vuṭṭhāpenti. Bhikkhunīyo evamāhaṁsu—“etha, sikkhamānā, imaṁ jānātha, imaṁ detha, imaṁ āharatha, iminā attho, imaṁ kappiyaṁ karothā”ti. Tā evamāhaṁsu—“na mayaṁ, ayye, sikkhamānā, bhikkhuniyo mayan”ti.
2p_2V_3256Yā tā bhikkhuniyo appicchā … pe … tā ujjhāyanti khiyyanti vipācenti: “Kathañhi nāma bhikkhuniyo paripuṇṇadvādasavassaṁ gihigataṁ dve vassāni chasu dhammesu sikkhitasikkhaṁ saṁghena asammataṁ vuṭṭhāpessantī”ti … pe … “Saccaṁ kira, bhikkhave, bhikkhuniyo paripuṇṇadvādasavassaṁ gihigataṁ dve vassāni chasu dhammesu sikkhitasikkhaṁ saṁghena asammataṁ vuṭṭhāpentī”ti?
“Saccaṁ, bhagavā”ti.
Vigarahi buddho bhagavā … pe … kathañhi nāma, bhikkhave, bhikkhuniyo paripuṇṇadvādasavassaṁ gihigataṁ dve vassāni chasu dhammesu sikkhitasikkhaṁ saṁghena asammataṁ vuṭṭhāpessanti. Netaṁ, bhikkhave, appasannānaṁ vā pasādāya … pe … vigarahitvā … pe … dhammiṁ kathaṁ katvā bhikkhū āmantesi:
“Anujānāmi, bhikkhave, paripuṇṇadvādasavassāya gihigatāya dve vassāni chasu dhammesu sikkhitasikkhāya vuṭṭhānasammutiṁ dātuṁ.
Evañca pana, bhikkhave, dātabbā. Tāya paripuṇṇadvādasavassāya gihigatāya dve vassāni chasu dhammesu sikkhitasikkhāya saṁghaṁ upasaṅkamitvā ekaṁsaṁ uttarāsaṅgaṁ karitvā bhikkhunīnaṁ pāde vanditvā ukkuṭikaṁ nisīditvā añjaliṁ paggahetvā evamassa vacanīyo:‘Ahaṁ, ayye, itthannāmā itthannāmāya ayyāya paripuṇṇadvādasavassā gihigatā dve vassāni chasu dhammesu sikkhitasikkhā, saṁghaṁ vuṭṭhānasammutiṁ yācāmī’ti. Dutiyampi yācitabbā. Tatiyampi yācitabbā.
Byattāya bhikkhuniyā paṭibalāya saṁgho ñāpetabbo.
3p_2V_3257, msdiv1102‘Suṇātu me, ayye, saṁgho. Ayaṁ itthannāmā itthannāmāya ayyāya paripuṇṇadvādasavassā gihigatā dve vassāni chasu dhammesu sikkhitasikkhā saṁghaṁ vuṭṭhānasammutiṁ yācati. Yadi saṁghassa pattakallaṁ, saṁgho itthannāmāya paripuṇṇadvādasavassāya gihigatāya dve vassāni chasu dhammesu sikkhitasikkhāya vuṭṭhānasammutiṁ dadeyya. Esā ñatti.
4p_2V_3258Suṇātu me, ayye, saṁgho. Ayaṁ itthannāmā itthannāmāya ayyāya paripuṇṇadvādasavassā gihigatā dve vassāni chasu dhammesu sikkhitasikkhā saṁghaṁ vuṭṭhānasammutiṁ yācati. Saṁgho itthannāmāya paripuṇṇadvādasavassāya gihigatāya dve vassāni chasu dhammesu sikkhitasikkhāya vuṭṭhānasammutiṁ deti. Yassā ayyāya khamati itthannāmāya paripuṇṇadvādasavassāya gihigatāya dve vassāni chasu dhammesu sikkhitasikkhāya vuṭṭhānasammutiyā dānaṁ, sā tuṇhassa; yassā nakkhamati, sā bhāseyya.
5p_2V_3259Dinnā saṁghena itthannāmāya paripuṇṇadvādasavassāya gihigatāya dve vassāni chasu dhammesu sikkhitasikkhāya vuṭṭhānasammuti. Khamati saṁghassa, tasmā tuṇhī, evametaṁ dhārayāmī’”ti.
6p_2V_3260Atha kho bhagavā tā bhikkhuniyo anekapariyāyena vigarahitvā dubbharatāya … pe … evañca pana, bhikkhave, bhikkhuniyo imaṁ sikkhāpadaṁ uddisantu—
7p_2V_3261, msdiv1103“Yā pana bhikkhunī paripuṇṇadvādasavassaṁ gihigataṁ dve vassāni chasu dhammesu sikkhitasikkhaṁ saṁghena asammataṁ vuṭṭhāpeyya, pācittiyan”ti.
8p_2V_3262, msdiv1104Yā panā'ti yā yādisā … pe … bhikkhunī'ti … pe … ayaṁ imasmiṁ atthe adhippetā bhikkhunīti.
9p_2V_3263Paripuṇṇadvādasavassā nāma pattadvādasavassā.
Gihigatā nāma purisantaragatā vuccati.
Dve vassānī'ti dve saṁvaccharāni.
Sikkhitasikkhā nāma chasu dhammesu sikkhitasikkhā.
Asammatā nāma ñattidutiyena kammena vuṭṭhānasammuti na dinnā hoti.
Vuṭṭhāpeyyā'ti upasampādeyya.
10p_2V_3264“Vuṭṭhāpessāmī”ti gaṇaṁ vā ācariniṁ vā pattaṁ vā cīvaraṁ vā pariyesati, sīmaṁ vā sammannati, āpatti dukkaṭassa. Ñattiyā dukkaṭaṁ. Dvīhi kammavācāhi dukkaṭā. Kammavācāpariyosāne upajjhāyāya āpatti pācittiyassa. Gaṇassa ca ācariniyā ca āpatti dukkaṭassa.
11p_2V_3265, msdiv1105Dhammakamme dhammakammasaññā vuṭṭhāpeti, āpatti pācittiyassa. Dhammakamme vematikā vuṭṭhāpeti, āpatti pācittiyassa. Dhammakamme adhammakammasaññā vuṭṭhāpeti, āpatti pācittiyassa.
12p_2V_3266Adhammakamme dhammakammasaññā, āpatti dukkaṭassa. Adhammakamme vematikā, āpatti dukkaṭassa. Adhammakamme adhammakammasaññā, āpatti dukkaṭassa.
13p_2V_3267, msdiv1106Anāpatti—paripuṇṇadvādasavassaṁ gihigataṁ dve vassāni chasu dhammesu sikkhitasikkhaṁ saṁghena sammataṁ vuṭṭhāpeti, ummattikāya, ādikammikāyāti.