The seventeen sections (vastu) on monastic procedure 2.182

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ཡིན་པ་གང་ཞེ་ན། བཀར་བའི་གནས་སོ། །དགེ་སློང་རྣམས་ཀྱིས་ནི་ཁྱིམ་པ་དག་དང་འདུས་ཤིང་འཁོད་ནས་གསོ་སྦྱོང་དང་དགག་དབྱེ་དང་། གསོལ་བ་དང་། གསོལ་བ་དང་གཉིས་དང་། གསོལ་བ་དང་བཞིའི་ལས་མི་བྱ། དགེ་སྦྱོང་དུ་ཁས་འཆེ་བ་རྣམས་དང་མ་ཡིན། ཟ་མ་རྣམས་དང་མ་ཡིན། མ་ནིང་རྣམས་དང་མ་ཡིན། དགེ་སློང་མ་སུན་ཕྱུང་བ་རྣམས་དང་མ་ཡིན། ཕ་བསད་པ་རྣམས་དང་མ་ཡིན། མ་བསད་པ་རྣམས་དང་མ་ཡིན། དགྲ་བཅོམ་པ་བསད་པ་རྣམས་དང་མ་ཡིན། དགེ་འདུན་གྱི་དབྱེན་བྱེད་པ་རྣམས་དང་མ་ཡིན། དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པ་ལ་ངན་སེམས་ཀྱིས་ཁྲག་འབྱིན་པ་རྣམས་དང་མ་ཡིན། མུ་སྟེགས་ཅན་རྣམས་དང་མ་ཡིན། མུ་སྟེགས་ཅན་ཞུགས་པ་རྣམས་དང་མ་ཡིན། རྐུ་ཐབས་སུ་གནས་པ་རྣམས་དང་མ་ཡིན། ཐ་དད་དུ་གནས་པ་རྣམས་དང་མ་ཡིན་ཏེ། གནས་པར་མི་བྱ་བ་རྣམས་དང་འདུས་ཤིང་འཁོད་ནས་གསོ་སྦྱོང་དང་། དགག་དབྱེ་དང་། གསོལ་བ་དང་། གསོལ་བ་དང་གཉིས་དང་། གསོལ་བ་དང་བཞིའི་ལས་མི་བྱའི། ཐམས་ཅད་ཡོངས་སུ་དག་པ་དང་། ལྟ་བ་མཐུན་པ་དག་འདུས་ཤིང་འཁོད་ནས་གསོ་སྦྱོང་དང་། དགག་དབྱེ་དང་། གསོལ་བ་དང་། གསོལ་བ་དང་གཉིས་དང་། གསོལ་བ་དང་བཞིའི་ལས་བྱའོ། །ལས་མི་མཐུན་པ་དག་བྱས་ན་འགལ་ཚབས་ཅན་དུ་འགྱུར་རོ། །གསོ་སྦྱོང་གི་གཞི་རྫོགས་སོ།། །།

An uninhabited site.

“Monks should not perform the restoration rite, the lifting of restrictions, motions, acts by motion and resolution, or acts by motion and triple resolution in a place where householders are gathered or staying.

“Monks should not perform the restoration rite, the lifting of restrictions, motions, acts by motion and resolution, or acts by motion and triple resolution in a place where those unfit for the training—those who have not professed as ascetics,²⁸⁰ those who have undergone castration, persons labeled a paṇḍaka, those who have violated a nun, patricides, matricides, those who have killed an arhat, those who have caused a schism in the saṅgha, those who have maliciously drawn blood from a tathāgata, tīrthikas, members of a tīrthika order, persons living under false pretenses, persons who are outside the common living, and persons who are denied the common living—are gathered or staying.

“Monks will not be guilty of a breach if the restoration rite, the lifting of restrictions, motions, acts by motion and resolution, or acts by motion and triple resolution are performed in a place where all who have gathered and are staying are pure and like-minded.

“They will be guilty of a breach if acts are performed without the complete saṅgha.”

May those beautiful flowers that have rained down
From the Great Sage’s moon-like visage
Remain among beings for a long time to come,
Overcoming evil views without being snared.

Translated by the Kāśmirī preceptor Sarvajñādeva, the Indian preceptor Vidyākāraprabha, the Kāśmirī preceptor Dharmākāra, and the translator and monk Palgyi Lhunpo. The Indian preceptor Vidyākāraprabha and the chief editor of translations, the monk Paltsek, retranslated and proofed the text before settling upon the final version.

The Buddha said that acceptance is the supreme hardship, acceptance is the supreme nirvāṇa.
One who harms other renunciants and does violence to them is not an ascetic.

ye dharmā hetuprabhavā hetuṃ teṣāṃ tathāgata uvāca, teṣāṃ ca yo nirodha evaṃvadī mahāśramaṇaḥ

Prologue

A global summary²⁴ of The Chapter on Lifting Restrictions:²⁵

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Lifting Restrictions

A summary:

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Consent to Lift Restrictions

The Blessed Buddha pledged to settle for the rains²⁸ in Śrāvastī, in Prince Jeta’s Grove, Anāthapiṇḍada’s Park. Meanwhile, a great many monks adopted the following rule as they pledged to settle for the rains elsewhere:²⁹ “Venerable ones,

or a site/nonsite with monks and go to a site without monks where his body and mind will be at ease.

“On the fifteenth, the day of the restoration rite, a monk should not leave a site with monks, a nonsite with monks, a site/nonsite with monks, or a site without monks and go to a different site without monks unless there are dangers at the site where he is staying or the entire saṅgha is going there.

“On the fifteenth, the day of the restoration rite, a monk should leave a site with monks, a nonsite with monks, a site/nonsite with monks, a site without monks, or a nonsite without monks and go to a site/nonsite without monks where his body and mind will be at ease.²⁷⁸

“On the fifteenth, the day of the restoration rite, a monk should not leave a site with monks, a nonsite with monks, a site/nonsite with monks, or a site/nonsite with or without monks and go to a site/nonsite without monks, unless there are dangers at the site where he is staying or the entire saṅgha is going there.

“What is a ‘site with monks’? A site where all acts are witnessed.²⁷⁹ What is a ‘nonsite with monks’? A site where no acts are witnessed. What is a ‘site/nonsite with monks’? A site where some acts are witnessed while other acts are not. What is a ‘site without monks’? A nuns’ site. What is a ‘nonsite without monks’? A tīrthikas’ site. What is a ‘site/nonsite without monks’?