{"collection":"Buddhism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bud/sbe20/sbe20002.htm","path":"bud/sbe20/sbe20002.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bud/sbe20/sbe20002.htm","text":"1. Now at that time the Blessed Buddha was dwelling at S\u00e2vatthi, in the \u00c2r\u00e2ma of An\u00e2thapindika. And at that time the Khabbaggiya Bhikkhus used to carry out the formal Acts--the Tagganiya, and the Nissaya, and the Pabb\u00e2ganiya, and the Patis\u00e2raniya, and the Ukkhepaniya--against Bhikkhus who were not present.\nThen those Bhikkhus who were modest were annoyed, murmured, and became indignant, saying, 'How can the Khabbaggiya Bhikkhus [act thus] 1?' And those Bhikkhus told the matter to the Blessed One.\n'Is it true, O Bhikkhus, as they say, that the Khabbaggiya Bhikkhus carry out the (aforesaid) 1 formal Acts against Bhikkhus who are not present?'\n'It is true, Lord!'\nThe Blessed Buddha rebuked them, saying, 'This is improper (&c., as in I, 1, 2, down to the end).' And when he had thus rebuked them, and had\ndelivered a religious discourse, he addressed the Bhikkhus, and said: 'The formal Acts, O Bhikkhus, the Tagganiya-, the Nissaya-, the Pabb\u00e2ganiya-, the Patis\u00e2raniya-, and the Ukkhepaniya-kammas, ought not to be carried out against Bhikkhus who are not present. Whosoever does so, shall be guilty of a dukkata offence.'\n1:1 The words above are repeated.","title":"SBE 20: Fourth Khandhaka: Chapter 1","type":"page"}