宗四分比丘隨門要略行儀 1.3

1.3

Face-to-face procedure for the rains retreat: 'May the bhadanta focus his mind. I, the bhikṣu [name], now rely on such-and-such a saṅghārāma (if in a layperson's house, one should say: 'rely on such-and-such a village') for the first three months of the summer rains retreat, for the sake of repairing broken-down dwellings.' (To be said three times. The person addressed asks:) 'Whom do you rely upon as vinayadhara?' (He answers:) 'Vinayācārya [name].' (The other should respond:) 'When you have doubts, you must inquire.' He answers, saying: 'Indeed.' (The junior […] places it on his crown to uphold.) If after the seventeenth day of the fourth month up to the sixteenth day of the fifth month, one should uniformly say: 'the latter three months of the summer rains retreat.' (The remaining procedure is the same as above.) For one person's mental resolution rains retreat procedure, one merely eliminates 'May the bhadanta focus his mind' and the questions and answers below; otherwise, it is entirely identical to the face-to-face procedure. (Regardless of whether it is face-to-face or mental resolution, if staying in a layperson's house, one must remove 'for the sake of repairing broken-down dwellings'; the rest is completely as above. A bhikṣu must not perform menial labor for laypeople; whatever he does, he incurs a duṣkṛta.)