Buddha: His Life, his Doctrine, his Order c10.t2.8

c10.t2.8

"At the end of the rainy season the nuns are to give the the monks (Bhikkhusangha). The two Orders are together denominated "the two-sided Order" (ubhatosangha). The two-sided Order represents, however, no particular unifying organism: the term is only a collective expression, which amounts merely to "the Order of monks and the Order of nuns." The two-sided Order nowhere appears acting on a common platform. If a layman gives garments to the two-sided Order, all members, monks and nuns, do not obtain equal shares, but one-half belongs to the Order of monks, the other half to the Order of nuns. "Even if there be many monks there and only one nun, she obtains the half."—*Mahâvagga*, viii, 32.