BUDDHIST MONASTIC CODE I

The Animal Chapter Chapter 8.7The Commentary states that the factor of object under this rule is fulfilled only by anovice who has undergone the second form of expulsion and has yet to relinquishhis evil view.Perception. There is no offense in befriending, etc., an expelled novice if one doesnot know that he has been expelled; a dukkaṭa for befriending, etc., a novice whohas not been expelled but whom one perceives as expelled; and a dukkaṭa forbefriending, etc., a novice if one is in doubt about the matter. This last penaltyholds regardless of whether he has actually been expelled or not.Effort here is fulfilled by any one of four sorts of action:1) Befriending a novice means making friendly overtures to him with thethought of supplying him with material requisites or instruction in theDhamma, as a mentor would.2) Receiving services from him means to accept the services a mentornormally receives from his student — the Vibhaṅga mentions acceptingpowder, clay (soap) for washing, tooth wood, or water for rinsing the mouthor washing the face (§).3 & 4) Communing and lying down in the same dwelling are defined asunder the preceding rule.Non-offenses. There is no offense in supporting, etc., a novice if one knows that hehas not been expelled, or if one knows that he has relinquished the view that led tohis expulsion in the first place. As under the preceding rule, the Vibhaṅga statesexplicitly that the first of these three exemptions holds regardless of whether one'sperception is correct, and the same principle would seem to apply to the remainingtwo as well.Summary: Befriending, receiving services from, communing, or lying down under thesame roof with an expelled novice — knowing that he has been expelled — is apācittiya offense.391