四分律刪繁補闕行事鈔 3.54

3.54

《四分》：邊方比丘，曲開五事：一持律五人受大戒（以僧少故，三年方集）。二著重革屣（以砂石多故）。三數數洗浴（生世善故）。四敷羺羊皮、白羊皮、鹿皮為臥具（以彼方無餘臥具故）。五聽比丘得衣入手，數滿十日（以無人可對故）。律云：東方有國，名白木條，已外便聽。（按：梁時貢職圖云：西蕃白木條國來貢獻。則此在彼東；而邊僧既多，用本開法，律結正罪；必無僧可得，準用無過。）

The *Dharmaguptaka Vinaya* states: 'For bhikṣus in border regions, five matters are specially permitted: 1. Five persons who uphold the Vinaya may confer full ordination (because the saṃgha is scarce, taking three years to gather). 2. Wearing multilayered sandals (because there is much sand and gravel). 3. Bathing frequently (to produce worldly wholesomeness). 4. Spreading wild goat skin, white sheep skin, and deer skin as bedding (because that region lacks other bedding). 5. Allowing a bhikṣu, once a robe comes into his hands, to count a full ten days [to purify it] (because there is no one available before whom to do so).' The Vinaya states: 'In the east there is a country named Baimutiao; beyond it, this is permitted.' (Note: The *Illustrations of Tribute-Bearing Offices* of the Liang dynasty states: 'The country of Baimutiao in the Western Barbarians came to present tribute.' Thus this country lies to its east; and where border monks are numerous, if one relies on the original permissive rule, the Vinaya establishes a formal offense; only where no monks can be found at all is it blameless to apply this rule by extension.)