尼羯磨 3.40

3.40

Procedure for the vinaya of covering over with grass (If the bhikṣuṇīs reflect: "We have committed many infractions of the precepts of the community, which are not the practices of a śramaṇa, both acting and speaking, entering and exiting without restraint. If we were to cross-examine each other concerning these matters, it might cause this dispute to become even deeper and graver, lasting through months and years, so that the dispute could not be extinguished dhammena, according to the vinaya, or according to what the Buddha taught, causing the saṃgha to find no peace." The Buddha said: "This dispute should be extinguished just as covering over the ground with grass.")