{"collection":"Buddhism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bud/sbe20/sbe20088.htm","path":"bud/sbe20/sbe20088.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bud/sbe20/sbe20088.htm","text":"1. Now the Blessed One addressed the Bhikkhus, and said: 'Now henceforth I, O Bhikkhus, will not hold Uposatha, nor recite the P\u00e2timokkha; let you yourselves, O Bhikkhus, henceforth hold Uposatha and recite the P\u00e2timokkha. It is, O Bhikkhus, an impossible thing and an inexpedient that the Tath\u00e2gata should hold Uposatha and recite the P\u00e2timokkha before an assembly which is not pure. And the P\u00e2timokkha, O Bhikkhus, is not to be listened to by one who has committed an offence. Whosoever shall so listen to it, shall be guilty of a dukkata. I allow you, O Bhikkhus, for whomsoever shall listen to the P\u00e2timokkha at a time when he is guilty, to interdict for him the P\u00e2timokkha 1.\n'And thus, O Bhikkhus, is it to be interdicted. On the day of Uposatha, on the fourteenth or fifteenth day of the month, and at a time when that individual is present, thus shall it be proposed in the midst of the Samgha:\n'\"Let the venerable Samgha hear me. Such and such an individual is guilty of an offence. For him\ndo I interdict the P\u00e2timokkha to the effect that it shall not be recited when he is present. The P\u00e2timokkha is accordingly interdicted.\"'\n306:1 P\u00e2timokkham thapetum: exactly analogous to pav\u00e2ranam thapetum at Mah\u00e2vagga IV, 16, 2. H.O. has already pointed out (in his 'Buddha,' p. 381, note 2) that we have evidently here a later innovation. The whole frame of the P\u00e2timokkha shows that it was at first intended that a guilty Bhikkhu should confess his offence during the recitation, if he had not done so before,","title":"SBE 20: Ninth Khandhaka: Chapter 2","type":"page"}