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Cīvaraacchindanasikkhāpada

The training rule on taking robe-cloth back

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Theravāda Collection on Monastic Law

Monks’ rules and their analysis

The chapter on relinquishment

Monks’ Relinquishment

25. The training rule on taking robe-cloth back

Origin story

At one time the Buddha was staying at Sāvatthī in the Jeta Grove, Anāthapiṇḍika’s Monastery. At that time Venerable Upananda the Sakyan said to his brother’s student, “Come, let’s go wandering in the country.”

“I can’t go, Venerable, my robes are worn.”

“I’ll give you a robe.” And he gave him a robe.

Soon afterwards that monk heard that the Master was about to go wandering in the country. He thought, “Now I won’t go wandering with Venerable Upananda, but with the Master.” Then, when Upananda said, “Let’s go,” he replied, “I’m not going with you, but with the Master.”

“Well, the robe I gave you is going with me,” and he just took it back in anger.

That monk told other monks what had happened. And the monks of few desires … complained and criticized Upananda, “How can Venerable Upananda give away a robe and then take it back in anger?”

After criticizing him in many ways, they told the Master. … “Is it true, Upananda, that you acted like this?”

“It’s true, Master.”

The Buddha rebuked him, “… Foolish man, how can you give a robe to a monk and then take it back in anger? This will not give rise to confidence in those without it … And, monks, this training rule should be recited thus:

Final ruling

Cīvara means both a finished robe and any cloth that can be used to make a robe. Thus I vary my translation depending on the context.‘If a monk himself gives robe-cloth to a monk, but then, in anger, takes it back or gets it taken back, he commits an offense entailing relinquishment and confession.’”

Definitions

A: whoever … Monk: … The monk who has been given the full ordination by a complete Order through a procedure consisting of one motion and three announcements that is unchallengeable and fit to stand— this sort of monk is meant in this case.

To a monk: to another monk.

Himself: he himself has given it.

Robe-cloth: The six are linen, cotton, silk, wool, sunn hemp, and hemp; see Mv.8.3.1. This means not smaller than 8 by 4 standard (sugata) finger-breadths, or 16 by 8 cm; see Kkh. 94.4 and BMC I, pp. 565-566.one of the six kinds of robe-cloth, but not smaller than what can be transferred.

In anger: discontent, having hatred, hostile.

Takes […] back: if he takes it back himself, he commits an offense entailing relinquishment and confession.

Gets […] taken back: if he asks another, he commits an offense of wrong conduct. If he only asks once, then even if the other takes back many times, it becomes subject to relinquishment.


The robe-clot) should be relinquished to an Order, a group, or an individual. “And, monks, it should be relinquished in this way. … To be expanded as in Relinquishment 1, paragraphs 13–17, with appropriate substitutions. … ‘Venerables, this robe-cloth which I took back after giving it to a monk is to be relinquished. I relinquish it to the Order.’ … the Order should give … you should give … ‘I give this robe-cloth back to you.’”

Permutations

If the other monk is fully ordained and he perceives him as fully ordained, and after giving him robe-cloth, he takes it back in anger or gets it taken back, he commits an offense entailing relinquishment and confession. If the other monk is fully ordained, but he is unsure if he is, and after giving him robe-cloth, he takes it back in anger or gets it taken back, he commits an offense entailing relinquishment and confession. If the other monk is fully ordained, but he perceives him as not fully ordained, and after giving him robe-cloth, he takes it back in anger or gets it taken back, he commits an offense entailing relinquishment and confession.

If, after giving him another requisite, he takes it back in anger or gets it taken back, he commits an offense of wrong conduct. If, after giving robe-cloth or another requisite to a person who is not fully ordained, he takes it back in anger or gets it taken back, he commits an offense of wrong conduct.

If the other monk is not fully ordained, but he perceives him as fully ordained, he commits an offense of wrong conduct. If the other monk is not fully ordained, but he is unsure if he is, he commits an offense of wrong conduct. If the other monk is not fully ordained, and he perceives him as not fully ordained, he commits an offense of wrong conduct.

Non-offenses

There is no offense: if the other monk gives it back; if he takes it on trust from him; if he is insane; if he is the first offender.


The fifth rule, the training rule on taking robe-cloth back, is finished.

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