{"collection":"Buddhism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bud/sbe20/sbe20102.htm","path":"bud/sbe20/sbe20102.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bud/sbe20/sbe20102.htm","text":"1. Now at that time a certain Bhikkhun\u00ee, when on her death-bed, said: 'After I am gone, let my set of necessaries 5 belong to the Samgha.' Then the\n[paragraph continues] Bhikkhus and the Bhikkhun\u00ees disputed as to it,' saying: 'It belongs to us; it belongs to us.'\nThey told this matter to the Blessed One.\n'If, O Bhikkhus, a Bhikkhun\u00ee, or a novice under training to become one (a Sikkham\u00e2n\u00e2), when on her death-bed, should say: \"After I am gone, let my set of necessaries belong to the Samgha,\" then it is the Bhikkhun\u00ee-samgha it belongs to; the Bhikkhu-samgha is not the owner thereof. If a Bhikkhu, O Bhikkhus, or a novice under training to become one (a S\u00e2manera), when on his death-bed, should say: \"After I am gone, let my set of necessaries become the property of the Samgha,\" then it is the Bhikkhu-samgha it belongs to; the Bhikkhun\u00ee-samgha is not the owner thereof 1'\n343:5 Parikkh\u00e2ro; that is, the eight things over which a member p. 344 of the Buddhist Order was allowed proprietary rights--the three robes, the alms-bowl, razor, needle, girdle, and water-strainer.\n344:1 By the rule laid down in the Mah\u00e2vagga VIII, 27, the set of robes and the bowl are to be assigned by the Samgha to those that waited on the sick--at least in the case of Bhikkhus,--and the analogy would doubtless hold good of the Bhikkhun\u00ees also.","title":"SBE 20: Tenth Khandhaka: Chapter 11","type":"page"}