四分律刪繁補闕行事鈔 2.183

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與未具人同誦戒六。五緣：一是佛說法，二字句味，三未受具人，四齊聲同誦，五說言了即犯。律中法者，佛所說，聲聞所說，仙人諸天所說；若口授，若書授。說了了，犯墮。若師不教言，我說竟，汝可說者，師吉羅。《僧祇》：若聲聞弟子，餘人等說，為佛印可者，犯墮（決《四分》不了文）。《善見》：一切三藏，佛說者，羅漢結集者，同誦得墮；若自撰集文字，乃至俗書，非佛說故，不犯。《十誦》：隨一品一章一段，各得墮。此律但云同誦，不簡文句多少。《多論》：若二人俱經利，並誦無犯。若比丘無處受法，乃至得從沙彌尼受；但求持戒德重人作證明伴，亦得從白衣受法，但不得稱闍梨。如是例知，但消息，令不失威儀。律不犯者：云我說竟汝說，一人誦竟一人書，若二人同業同誦，若錯說，彼此一切不犯。

Precept six: chanting together with an unordained person. Five conditions: First, it is Dharma spoken by the Buddha. Second, it possesses syllables, phrases, and meaning. Third, an unordained person. Fourth, chanting together in unison. Fifth, once the words are spoken distinctly, it constitutes an offense. In the vinaya, 'Dharma' refers to what is spoken by the Buddha, what is spoken by the śrāvakas, and what is spoken by ṛṣis and devas; whether transmitted orally or in writing. If spoken distinctly, one incurs a pāyattika. If the teacher does not instruct by saying, 'I have finished speaking, you may speak,' the teacher incurs a duṣkṛta. The *Mahāsāṃghika-vinaya* says: If spoken by śrāvaka disciples, other people, and so forth, and sanctioned by the Buddha, it incurs a pāyattika (this resolves the ambiguous text in the *Dharmaguptaka Vinaya*). The *Samantapāsādikā* says: Regarding all of the Tripiṭaka, what was spoken by the Buddha and compiled by the arhats, chanting together incurs a pāyattika; if one compiles texts oneself, up to mundane books, because they are not spoken by the Buddha, there is no offense. The *Daśādhyāya-vinaya* says: According to each chapter, each section, or each paragraph, each incurs a pāyattika. This vinaya merely says 'chanting together,' without distinguishing the number of words or phrases. The *Sarvāstivāda-vinaya-vibhāṣā* says: If both people are proficient in the scriptures, chanting alongside each other is without offense. If a bhikṣu has nowhere to receive the Dharma, he may even receive it from a śrāmaṇerī; he need only seek a person who upholds the precepts and has weighty virtue to serve as a witnessing companion, and he may also receive the Dharma from a layperson, but must not call him an ācārya. Understand other cases by this analogy; only pay attention [to propriety] so that decorum is not lost. Under non-offense in the vinaya: saying 'I have finished speaking, you speak,' or one person reciting while the other writes, or two persons of the same status chanting together, or speaking mistakenly—in all such cases, neither commits an offense.