量處輕重儀 1.38

1.38

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.