{"collection":"Buddhism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bud/sbe17/sbe17136.htm","path":"bud/sbe17/sbe17136.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bud/sbe17/sbe17136.htm","text":"for not acknowledging, and for not atoning for, an offence 1.\n1. Now at that time the Blessed Buddha was dwelling at Kosamb\u00ee, in the Ghosita \u00c2r\u00e2ma. And at that time the venerable Khanna 2, when he had committed a fault, was not willing to acknowledge the fault. Those Bhikkhus who were moderate were annoyed, murmured, and became indignant, saying, 'How can the venerable Khanna act so?' And those Bhikkhus told the matter to the Blessed One.\nThen the Blessed One on that occasion, and in that connection, after he had convened a meeting of the Bhikkhu-samgha, asked the Bhikkhus:\n'Is it true, O Bhikkhus, as they say, that Khanna\nwhen he has committed a fault, is not willing to acknowledge the fault?'\n'It is true, Lord!'\nThe Blessed Buddha rebuked him, saying, 'How, O Bhikkhus, can that foolish one act so? This will not conduce either to the conversion of the unconverted, or to the increase of the converted; but rather to those who have not been converted being not converted, and to the turning back of those who have been converted.'\nAnd when the Blessed One had so rebuked him, and had delivered a religious discourse, he addressed the Bhikkhus and said: 'Let therefore the Samgha, O Bhikkhus, carry out against Khanna the Bhikkhu the \u00e2pattiy\u00e2 adassane Ukkhepaniya-kamma (the Act of Suspension which follows on not acknowledging a fault) to the intent that he shall not eat or dwell together with the Samgha 1.\n'Now thus, O Bhikkhus, should it be carried out.' [Here follow the formal words of' the Kammav\u00e2k\u00e2 as in chapter 1, 4, with the necessary alterations owing to the difference of the fault and of the K am ma following on it. And at the end of the Kammav\u00e2k\u00e2 (after the words 'Thus I understand') the following sentence is added.]\n'And send a proclamation, O Bhikkhus, from residence to residence 2; saying, \"Khanna the Bhikkhu has been subjected by the Samgha to the Ukkhepaniya-kamma for not acknowledging a fault.\"'\n370:1 There is no mention in the P\u00e2timokkha of any such proceeding. At the close of each of the four P\u00e2tidesaniya Rules there is a form of confession to be observed. It would seem from the following chapters, which are nowhere expressly confined to these four cases, that a similar confession was expected after the commission of an offence against any of the P\u00e2timokkha Rules. In the closing words of the Samgh\u00e2disesa Rules, an older proceeding is mentioned, under which an offending Bhikkhu who has not confessed any breach of either of those thirteen Rules is to remain on probation for as many days he has allowed to go by without confessing,\n370:2 On Khanna's character, see also below, IV, 14, I, XI, I, 12-14, and Mah\u00e2-parinibb\u00e2na Sutta VI, 4.\n371:1 Compare Mah\u00e2vagga I, 79 generally, and \u00a7 2 of that chapter on the last clause (asambhogam samghena).\n371:2 On this phrase the Samanta P\u00e2s\u00e2dik\u00e2 says, \u00c2v\u00e2sa-parampara\u00f1 ka bhikkhave samsath\u00e2 ti sabb\u00e2v\u00e2sesu \u00e2roketha.","title":"SBE 17: First Khandhaka: Chapter 25","type":"page"}