Anālayo, “The Mass Suicide of Monks in Discourse and Vinaya Literature”, (with an addendum by Richard Gombrich), Journal of the Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies, 2014, vol. 7 pp. 11–55.
It took three years for me to read this and thank you for posting. This was definitely the very definition of “overkill” and left me with much to contemplate:
Ānanda, why does the mendicant Saṅgha seem so diminished? AN54.9
