The seventeen sections (vastu) on monastic procedure 3.33

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བའི་སྒོར་འོངས་ནས་འདི་སྐད་ཅེས་འཕགས་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བའི་བར་སྔ་མ་བཞིན་ཏེ། འཕགས་པ་ཆེ་གེ་མོ་ཞེས་བྱ་བས་ཉེས་པ་འདི་དང་འདི་དག་བྱས་སོ་ཞེས་སྨོས་པ་སྟེ། འདི་ལྟ་བུ་ནི་གང་ཟག་དང་དངོས་པོ་ཤེས་པ་ཡིན་ནོ། །གང་ཟག་དང་དངོས་པོ་མི་ཤེས་པ་ཇི་ལྟ་བུ་ཞེ་ན། རྣམ་པ་འདི་དག་མ་གཏོགས་པའོ། །དགག་དབྱེའི་གཞི་རྫོགས་སྷོ།། །།

whence they hurl curses, saying, ‘The noble one named so-and-so is unbecoming and lacks judgement. The noble one named so-and-so committed this and that fault.’ Because they name him and name this and that fault, in such an incident, both the person and matter are known.

“What does ‘neither the person nor the matter is known’ mean? Situations not included in the above scenarios.

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 summary¹⁴ of The Chapter on the Rains:

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Mirage, leaves, roots, sandals,
Rains, and the four leathers.¹⁵

Settling for the Rains

A summary:

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Permission for Settling for the Rains

The Blessed Buddha pledged to settle for the rains in Śrāvastī, in Prince Jeta’s Grove, Anāthapiṇḍada’s Park. Meanwhile, monks traveled and made their way through the countryside during the rains. When those monks who traveled and made their way through the countryside were not cautious, tīrthikas chastised, rebuked, and criticized the heedless and incautious monks,¹⁶ saying, “Sirs, the Śākyan ascetics are killers. These men do not balk at, shy away from, or avoid killing, for they travel and wander the countryside during the rains. When they travel and wander the countryside during the rains, they trample swarms of many tiny and minute creatures, thus depriving them of life. Even swallow chicks¹⁷ seasonally cower in their nests for the four rainy months. Cowering, they cringe and stay curled up.¹⁸ And if these shaven-headed ascetics do not understand even their basic pledges,¹⁹ who would give alms to them or even think to do so?”

The monks reported these events to the Blessed One and the Blessed One replied,