大般涅槃經集解 71.14

71.14

Sengliang remarks: As for the four-month probation, non-Buddhists originally held deviant views; if they adopted the robes fraudulently to steal the Dharma, they all underwent four months of probation. If that was not the case, they did not necessarily undergo probation. Baoliang remarks: As the Upāsaka-śīla Sūtra says, 'six months of probation,' this rule was simply laid down according to their capacities. And when the Vātsīputrīya renounced household life, it was only after fifteen days that he attained the first fruit: the ways of resonance and response differ according to the case, as is evident here."