The History of Buddhist Thought c10.35

c10.35

If the monk becomes guilty of one or another of these offences, for as many days as he conceals it so many days must he, even though unwilling, be compelled to dwell apart. When the monk has passed this period of probation (parivāsa), he must still for another six nights undergo the mānatta practice ¹ towards the (other) monks. When his period of mānatta is over, the monk is to be restored in a place where the Assembly of monks is as many as twenty. If the Assembly, being less than twenty even by one, should restore him, he is not restored, and those monks are blameworthy. This is the proper course in the matter.