量處輕重儀 1.38

1.38

已前謂伽藍內外村聚林野，若有自乞他為造作大小諸房，偏屬私己，佛開受用。若本主身死，折入常住。而寺法依時隨教分房者，任留亦得。若生熟材木塼瓦塹石草土房具，并擬造房直物（絹布錢穀），並隨現物輕重分處，以身存之時，物有正主，可隨言限；若至死後，更有別主，不得仍舊。

The above refers to inside and outside the monastery, in villages, forests, and wilderness: if someone personally begged for or had others build various large and small rooms belonging exclusively to himself, the Buddha permitted him to use them. If the original owner dies, they are transferred and surrendered to the permanent property. If the monastery's regulation is to distribute rooms periodically according to the teaching, retaining them is also permissible. If there are unworked or worked timber, bricks, tiles, quarried stone, straw, earth, fixtures for rooms, and goods intended as payment for constructing rooms (silk, cloth, coins, grain), they are all distributed and allocated as light or heavy property according to the actual goods present. This is because while the person is alive, the goods have an authentic owner and can be restricted according to his words; once he is dead, there are other owners, and things cannot remain as before.