{"collection":"Buddhism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bud/sbe20/sbe20117.htm","path":"bud/sbe20/sbe20117.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bud/sbe20/sbe20117.htm","text":"1. Now at that time a certain Bhikkhun\u00ee first abandoned the precepts, and then threw off the robes 1. Afterwards she came back, and asked the Bhikkhun\u00ees to admit her into the Order again.\nThey told this matter to the Blessed One.\n'A Bhikkhun\u00ee ought not, O Bhikkhus, to abandon the precepts. But by having thrown off the robes she is ipso facto incapable of being a Bhikkhun\u00ee.'\n2. Now at that time a certain Bhikkhun\u00ee, though still wearing the orange-coloured robe, joined a sect of the Titthiyas. Afterwards she came back, and asked the Bhikkhun\u00ees to receive her into the Order again.\nThey told this matter to the Blessed One. .\n'A Bhikkhun\u00ee, O Bhikkhus, who, when still wearing the orange-coloured robe, has gone over to the Titthiyas, is not to be received again 2.'\n366:1 On the distinction between these two phrases, see the note on Mah\u00e2vagga II, 22, 3.\n366:2 For the similar rule in the case of Bhikkhus, see Mah\u00e2vagga I, 38, 1.","title":"SBE 20: Tenth Khandhaka: Chapter 26","type":"page"}