Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v2.c27.1376
Dictionary of Pāli Proper Names v2.c27.1376
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v2.c27.1376
Pāṭimokkha, Pātimokkha.—The name given to a set of two hundred and twenty-seven rules to be observed by members of the Buddhist Order. The rules are not ethical but mainly economic, regulating the behaviour of the members of the Order towards one another in respect of clothes, dwellings, furniture, etc., held in common. In four cases out of the two hundred and twenty-seven the punishment for infringement of a rule is exclusion from the Order; in all the remaining cases, it is merely suspension for a time.