{"collection":"Buddhism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bud/sbe17/sbe17113.htm","path":"bud/sbe17/sbe17113.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bud/sbe17/sbe17113.htm","text":"1. 'There are three things, O Bhikkhus, by which, when a Tagganiya-kamma is characterised, it is against the Dhamma, and against the Vinaya, and difficult to be settled; (that is to say), when it has not been carried out in a full assembly of properly qualified persons, 'according to law and justice, and in the presence of the litigant parties 3--when it has been carried out without the accused person having been heard--when it has been carried out without the accused person having confessed himself guilty. A Tagganiya-kamma, O Bhikkhus, characterised\nby these three things is against the Dhamma, and against the Vinaya, and difficult to be settled.\n'There are other three things, O Bhikkhus, by which, when a Tagganiya-kamma has been characterised, it is against the Dhamma, and against the Vinaya, and difficult to be settled; (that is to say), when it has been carried out though no fault has been committed--when it has been carried out for a P\u00e2r\u00e2gika or a Samgh\u00e2disesa offence 1--when it has been carried out though the fault has been confessed. A Tagganiya-kamma, O Bhikkhus, characterised (&c., as before, down to) settled.\nThere are other three things, O Bhikkhus, by which, when a Tagganiya-kamma has been characterised, it is against the Dhamma, and against the Vinaya, and difficult to be settled; (that is to say), when it has been carried out without the accused person having been warned--when it has been carried out without the accused person having been called upon to remember (whether he has or has not committed the offence)--when it has been carried out without the accused person having been convicted. A Tagganiya-kamma, O Bhikkhus, characterised (&c., as before, down to) settled.\n'There are other three things, O Bhikkhus, by which, when a Tagganiya-kamma has been characterised, it is against the Dhamma, and against the Vinaya, and difficult to be settled; (that is to say), when it has not been carried out in a properly constituted meeting properly conducted 2--when it has\nbeen carried out without justice 1--when it has been carried out without the presence and approval of all the Bhikkhus belonging to the particular circuit 2. A Tagganiya-kamma, O Bhikkhus, characterised by these three things is (&c., as before, down to) settled.\nThere are other three things, O Bhikkhus, by which, when a Tagganiya-kamma has been characterised, it is against the Dhamma, and against the Vinaya, and difficult to be settled; (that is to say), when it has been carried out without the accused person having been heard--when it has been carried out without justice--when it has been carried out without the presence and approval of all the Bhikkhus belonging to the circuit. A Tagganiya-kamma, O Bhikkhus, characterised by these three things is (&c., as before, down to) settled.\n'There are other three things (&c., as before, down to) that is to say, when it has been carried out without the accused person having been convicted--when it has been carried out without justice--when it has been carried out without the presence and approval of all the Bhikkhus belonging to the circuit.'\n[And in a similar way each of the three things in paragraphs 2 and 3 of this section are united with the two things just repeated in each of paragraphs 4, 5, and 6, to make six further cases in which a Tagganiya-kamma is declared to be against the Dhamma, and against the Vinaya, and difficult to be revoked.]\n__________________\nHere end the twelve cases of a proceeding (Kamma) which is against the law.\n332:2 Repeated below, chapters Io, 14, and 19.\n332:3 All these details are involved in the meaning of the technical term asammukhat\u00e2, which is fully explained in Kullavagga IV, 14, 16, and following.\n333:1 Buddhaghosa says, Adesan\u00e2g\u00e2miniy\u00e2 ti P\u00e2r\u00e2gik\u00e2pattiy\u00e2 v\u00e2 Samgh\u00e2dises\u00e2pattiy\u00e2 v\u00e2.\n333:2 As in the first paragraph of this section more fully described, The word here used is the same.\n334:1 Adhammena; perhaps 'contrary to the Rules.'\n334:2 Vaggena for vi + aggena, the opposite of samaggena. See our note on the 21st P\u00e2kittiya, and Mah\u00e2vagga IX, 3, 5.","title":"SBE 17: First Khandhaka: Chapter 2","type":"page"}