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尼羯磨 3.17

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3.17

The procedure for admonishing against renouncing the Three Jewels with an angry mind: (At that time, the group of six bhikṣuṇīs, upon a single slight matter, became angry and displeased, and then said: "I renounce the Buddha, renounce the Dharma, renounce the saṃgha! It is not that there are only these Śākyan recluses; there are other recluses, brahmins, and practitioners of the brahmacarya. We can also practice the brahmacarya among them." The Buddha said, "I allow the saṃgha to carry out a jñapticaturtha-karman of rebuke to cause them to abandon this matter." A bhikṣuṇī should admonish that bhikṣuṇī, saying:)

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