{"collection":"Buddhism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bud/sbe20/sbe20009.htm","path":"bud/sbe20/sbe20009.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bud/sbe20/sbe20009.htm","text":"1. 'Now, O Bhikkhus, an official act carried out against a Bhikkhu who has confessed himself guilty is invalid as follows, and is valid as follows. And how does such an official act become invalid? In case a Bhikkhu have committed a P\u00e2r\u00e2gika offence, and in respect thereof either the Samgha, or a number of Bhikkhus, or a single Bhikkhu warns him, saying, \"The venerable one has been guilty of a P\u00e2r\u00e2gika.\" And he replies thus, \"I have not, Sirs, been guilty of a P\u00e2r\u00e2gika. I have been guilty of a Samgh\u00e2disesa.\" And in respect thereof the Samgha deals with him for a Samgh\u00e2disesa. Then that official act is invalid.'\n[And so also if on being warned of any one of the seven offences 1 he confesses himself to be guilty of any one of the offences different from the one charged, then the official act is invalid.]\n2. 'And when, O Bhikkhus, is such an official act valid? In case a Bhikkhu have committed a P\u00e2r\u00e2gika offence, and in respect thereof the Samgha, or a number of Bhikkhus, or a single Bhikkhu warns him, saying, \"The venerable one has been guilty of a P\u00e2r\u00e2gika.\" And he replies, \"Yea, Sirs, I have been guilty of a P\u00e2r\u00e2gika.\" And in respect thereof the Samgha deals with him for a P\u00e2r\u00e2gika. Then that official act is valid 2.'\n[And so for each of the other offences mentioned in \u00a7 1, the whole of \u00a7 2 is repeated.]\n24:1 The same, namely, as those in the list given at Mah\u00e2vagga IV, 16, 12, &c.\n24:2 In other words, if a Bhikkhu confesses an offence different from that with which he has been charged, the confession cannot be used against him even as regards a decision with respect to the offence confessed.\n24:3 On this chapter, see further below, IV, 14, 16.","title":"SBE 20: Fourth Khandhaka: Chapter 8","type":"page"}