Not inviting feedback on one’s behavior from both sanghas after the rains retreat (pavarana ceremony)
Not attending the fortnightly teaching (ovada) or the patimokkha recitation (uposatha ceremony)
Not asking the bhikkhus for the date of the ovada and the uposatha every two weeks
Having a male doctor treat a skin disease below the navel and above the knees without a female companion
Ordaining a pregnant woman
Ordaining a breastfeeding woman
Ordaining a trainee nun (sikkhamana) who has trained less than 2 years
Ordaining a trainee nun without sangha approval (even if trained for 2 years)
There are 24 rules dealing with ordination in the bhikkhuni patimokkha — 1 sanghadisesa and 23 pacittiyas. (Bhikkhus have one rule.) So the next few doodles will be about ordination only…
Discussing further Bhi.Pac 46, the rule is to not personally hand out food, rather than prohibiting generally providing it, say, by setting it near a person or asking another to give. So I think naming the rule “Handing food…” would be more accurate than “Giving food…”
Thanks!
I’m particularly tickled by the pizza being accepted after regular food was declined in Bhi Pac 54 - because that’s exactly when it’s hardest to keep this rule!
Thanks for the interpretive description and drawing of Bhi Pac 55, “Keeping good supporters to oneself”; the usual translations of being “Begrudging” or “Stingy with regard to families” don’t get the point across nearly so clearly.
Somehow the willfulness comes across clearly in the illustration for Bhi Pac 69 (not training under one’s Preceptor for 2 years) - actually laughed out loud.
Also LOL at the teddy bear in the almsbowl of the young ordainee of Bhi Pac 71.
Re:
Not assisting a new bhikkhuni one has ordained for two years
It sounds like a really long ordination ceremony. I suggest rewording for clarity:
Not assisting for two years a new bhikkhuni one has ordained
Yes, these are real rules
BTW, monks have them too, just not in their patimokkha.
The way people usually get around this is by using the exemption for monastics who are sick. If you had to walk far (without sandals / a vehicle) you’d get blisters or a heatstroke or some other sickness. So better to be safe than sorry…
Things were different in the Buddha’s days. People were used to walking barefoot and the roads usually were mud paths, not tarmac. Only rich people used vehicles…
Patidesaniyas are offenses that can be cleared through confession, similar to a pacittiya. The difference is that the monastics have to use a specific confession formula to clear the offense: “I have done a blameworthy and unsuitable thing which is to be acknowledged. I acknowledge it.”
There are 4 patidesaniyas for bhikkhus, 8 for bhikkhunis. None of them are shared.
The patidesaniyas for bhikkhus only
(rules 1-4 of 4)
Eating food received from a bhikkhuni
Not sending a bhikkhuni away when she is organizing a meal distribution for the monks
Eating food from families who have been designated by the sangha as “in training” (i.e. should not be approached for alms, because they give so much that they can barely survive themselves)
Living in a dangerous place and having laypeople deliver food there without telling them of the dangers.