[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [四分戒本疏卷第一．第二．第三](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2787) › 2.13 # 四分戒本疏卷第一．第二．第三 2.13 四分戒本疏卷第一．第二．第三 2.13 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [2.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2787.2.13) 無主自為過量僧不處分造房戒六　一開制意。初辨制意。後明開意。言制意者。然上行之士報力資強。堪耐惱緣不廢。正是以大聖制。依塚間樹下省緣修道。不畜房捨。而中行之輩資報力劣。不堪寒苦制。同上士交妨正修。乃是被人壞道之緣。故開畜小房。比丘因開廣作營構。紛預妨修。長己貪結壞知足行。違法造房。情過不輕。隨開還制　二釋名。專任自由不蒙指示。名僧不處分。大不依稱為過量。故云僧不處分過量造房戒　三具緣。通緣如上。別緣有六。一無主。二為己。三自乞求。四過量不處分。五過量不處分想。六房成便犯　四闕緣。若闕初緣犯後戒或三或二或一罪。若作如法房全可無罪。若闕第二為他作非法房。或二蘭二吉　或三二一或可無罪。若闕第三緣不自乞求。即無過量容有餘三乃至無罪。若闕第四作不過量處分。則全無罪容得四蘭。謂實不過量作過量想蘭。疑亦偷蘭實處分作處分想蘭。疑亦偷蘭。上若闕第五亦得四蘭。實過量作不過想蘭。疑亦偷蘭。不處分處分想蘭。疑亦偷。若闕第六緣。末後二團埿未境已還盡輕蘭。一團埿在重蘭。已下正明戒本。此戒因曠野比丘作大房乞求煩多。惱亂居士。故制此戒。 > The sixth precept: building a hut without an owner, for oneself, exceeding the measurement, and without the Saṃgha's designation. 1. The intent behind exceptions and prohibitions: First we examine the intent of prohibition, afterward clarify the intent of exception. As for the intent of prohibition: Superior practitioners possess strong karmic retribution and vitality, and are able to endure disturbing conditions without falling away from what is right. Therefore, the Great Sage instituted that they should rely on charnel grounds and beneath trees, minimizing external conditions to cultivate the Path, and not store away dwellings. But middling practitioners have weak retribution and vitality, and cannot endure cold and hardship; if regulated the same as superior practitioners, it would mutually hinder their proper cultivation, becoming a condition for people to ruin their Path. Therefore, an exception was made allowing them to keep a small hut. Monks, seizing upon the exception, engaged in extensive construction, becoming entangled and hindering cultivation, increasing their own bonds of greed, ruining the practice of contentment, and building huts in violation of the rules. Their mental faults being not light, following upon the exception, the prohibition was restored. 2. Explaining the name: Acting entirely on one's own initiative without receiving instruction is called "without the Saṃgha's designation." Being oversized and not conforming to the standard is called "exceeding the measurement." Hence it is called the precept of building a hut without the Saṃgha's designation and exceeding the measurement. 3. Possessing the conditions: General conditions are as above. Specific conditions are six: (1) without an owner; (2) for oneself; (3) begging by oneself; (4) exceeding the measurement and without designation; (5) the perception of exceeding the measurement and lacking designation; (6) the offense is committed as soon as the hut is completed. 4. Deficiencies in the conditions: If lacking the first condition, one violates the subsequent precept, incurring either three, two, or one offense; if one makes a lawful hut, one can be completely free of offense. If lacking the second condition, building an unlawful hut for another, there are either two sthūlāccayas and two duṣkṛtas, or three, two, or one, or possibly no offense. If lacking the third condition, not begging by oneself, there is no \[offense of\] exceeding the measurement, though it may allow the remaining three down to no offense. If lacking the fourth condition, building without exceeding the measurement and with designation, then there is completely no offense, though it may allow four sthūlāccayas: namely, truly not exceeding the measurement but perceiving it as exceeding is a sthūlāccaya; doubt is also a sthūlāccaya; truly designated but perceiving it as designated is a sthūlāccaya; doubt is also a sthūlāccaya. In the above, if lacking the fifth, one also incurs four sthūlāccayas: truly exceeding the measurement but perceiving it as not exceeding is a sthūlāccaya; doubt is also a sthūlāccaya; not designated but perceiving it as designated is a sthūlāccaya; doubt is also a sthūlāccaya. If lacking the sixth condition, before the final two lumps of plaster are finished, all are light sthūlāccayas; when one lump of plaster remains, it is a grave sthūlāccaya. Below, the Prātimokṣa text is directly clarified. This precept was instituted because the monks of Āṭavī built large huts with excessive begging, troubling and disturbing householders; hence this precept was instituted. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 2.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2787.2.12) - [Next: 2.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2787.2.14) - [Up: 2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2787.2) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2787~en-mt.2.13) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [四分律刪繁補闕行事鈔](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1804.2.106) — Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2787.2.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2787.2.13) · Pramāṇa