Vinaya Doodles 😁

[yodha]

@Khemarato.bhikkhu

Wait, what?? Bhikkhunis are required to travel?? I’m so confused

Yes, at least 5 yojanas (about 50miles/80km).
The early sangha were homeless wanderers… You shouldn’t get too cozy in one place.

[karl_lew]

So bhikkhus can throw popcorn at one another?

[yodha]

Only if laypeople offer it first…

[Mat]

@yodha

it first

Would they have to cut it first.

[yodha]

no… The skin already ruptures when the corn pops. So cutting won’t do anything anymore

[yodha]

The pacittiyas for bhikkhunis only

(rules 41-48 of 96)

41. Going to see picture galleries, lotus ponds, amusement parks, or gardens, etc.
42. Using a high or stuffed chair / couch
43. Spinning yarn
44. Doing a chore for a layperson
45. Agreeing to settle a dispute between bhikkhunis, and then not doing anything
46. Handing out food to laypeople or non-Buddhist ascetics
47. Using menstrual cloth one has stored from the previous month without returning it to the sangha
48. Going on a journey without giving up one’s room.

[karl_lew]

@yodha

Giving food to laypeople or non-Buddhist ascetics

Whoa! Wait! Doesn’t this contradict the Vinaya rule on offering food found on the road to someone who would offer it back to eat it? I recall something about travelling monks who found fallen fruit and had to offer it to others, only being able to eat it when offered back.

[yodha]

I think you are refering to this rule from the khandhakas?

“I allow you, monks, if one anywhere sees solid food that is fruit, but if there is no one to make it allowable, having taken it oneself, having carried it away, having seen someone to make it allowable, having laid it down on the ground, to make use of it, (he) having (formally) offered it to you. I allow you, monks, to receive (formally) what you have picked up.” Kd 6.17.9

It applies only to fruits, and the monastics have to lay the fruits on the ground. They don’t give it to laypeople directly.

[karl_lew]

@yodha

They don’t give it to laypeople directly

Ah! Thank you for clarifying. Now it makes sense.

[yodha]

The pacittiyas for bhikkhunis only

(rules 49-56 of 96)

49. Studying “lowly arts”
50. Teaching “lowly arts”
51. Entering a bhikkhu monastery unannounced
52. Insulting a bhikkhu
53. Insulting a group of bhikkhunis
54. Turning down an offer for more food, and then eating again elsewhere
55. Keeping good supporters to oneself
56. Spending the rains retreat in a a place with no bhikkhus nearby.

[Khemarato.bhikkhu]

@yodha

picture galleries, lotus ponds, amusement parks, or gardens, etc.

Your doodle for 41 is such a beautiful rendition of my own temple, Wat Yan, with its galleries, lotus ponds, amusement parks, and gardens!

Now I understand why they don’t allow Bhikkhunis to ordain here!

[yodha]

They seriously have this at the monastery?

Did one of the laypeople donate it?

[Mat]

I didn’t know they had picture galleries! (P41)

[Khemarato.bhikkhu]

@yodha

They seriously have this at the monastery?

No no. We don’t literally have a whirly chair thing… yet…

If anyone wants to donate to this effort, I think our Mondop Staircase would make an epic waterslide:

[yodha]

Looks great but there is shared pacittiya 134 / 53 about playing in water… And it applies to monks too.

[yodha]

The pacittiyas for bhikkhunis only

(rules 57-64 of 96)

57. Not inviting feedback on one’s behavior from both sanghas after the rains retreat (pavarana ceremony)
58. Not attending the fortnightly teaching (ovada) or the patimokkha recitation (uposatha ceremony)
59. Not asking the bhikkhus for the date of the ovada and the uposatha every two weeks
60. Having a male doctor treat a skin disease below the navel and above the knees without a female companion
61. Ordaining a pregnant woman
62. Ordaining a breastfeeding woman
63. Ordaining a trainee nun (sikkhamana) who has trained less than 2 years
64. 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…

(Updated 24 October 2019)

[yodha]

The pacittiyas for bhikkhunis only

(rules 65-72 of 96)

65. Ordaining a married girl who is less than twelve years old
66. Ordaining a married woman over 12, but who has not completed two years sikkhamana training
67. Ordaining a married woman over 12 with completed training, but without sangha approval
68. Not assisting for two years a new bhikkhuni one has ordained
69. Not following one’s preceptor for two years
70. Not taking away a new bhikkhuni at least 5 yojanas (~50 miles / 80 km)
71. Ordaining an unmarried girl less than 20 years old
72. Ordaining an unmarried woman over 20, but who has not completed two years sikkhamana training.

[Charlotteannun]

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!

[Charlotteannun]

Awesome drawing and interpretations, as always.

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.