BUDDHIST MONASTIC CODE I

Rule IndexEating food obtained from the same public alms center two days running — withoutleaving in the interim — unless one is too ill to leave the center, is a pācittiyaoffense. (Pc 31)Eating a meal to which four or more individual bhikkhus have been specificallyinvited — except on special occasions — is a pācittiya offense. (Pc 32)Eating a meal before going to another meal to which one was invited, or acceptingan invitation to one meal and eating elsewhere instead, is a pācittiya offense exceptwhen one is ill or during the time of giving cloth or making robes. (Pc 33)Accepting more than three bowlfuls of food that the donors prepared for their ownuse as presents or as provisions for a journey is a pācittiya offense. (Pc 34)Eating staple or non-staple food that is not left-over, after having earlier in the dayfinished a meal during which one turned down an offer to eat further staple food, isa pācittiya offense. (Pc 35)Eating staple or non-staple food in the period from noon till the next dawn is apācittiya offense. (Pc 37)Eating food that a bhikkhu — oneself or another — formally received on a previousday is a pācittiya offense. (Pc 38)Eating finer staple foods, after having asked for them for one's own sake — exceptwhen ill — is a pācittiya offense. (Pc 39)Eating food that has not been formally given is a pācittiya offense. (Pc 40)Eating staple or non-staple food, after having accepted it from the hand of anunrelated bhikkhunī in a village area, is a pāṭidesanīya offense. (Pd 1)Eating staple food accepted at a meal to which one has been invited and where abhikkhunī has given directions, based on favoritism, as to which bhikkhu should getwhich food, and none of the bhikkhus have dismissed her, is a pāṭidesanīya offense.(Pd 2)Eating staple or non-staple food, after accepting it — when one is neither ill norinvited — at the home of a family formally designated as "in training," is apāṭidesanīya offense. (Pd 3)Eating an unannounced gift of staple or non-staple food after accepting it in adangerous wilderness abode when one is not ill is a pāṭidesanīya offense. (Pd 4)LodgingsBuilding a plastered hut — or having it built — without a sponsor, destined for one'sown use, without having obtained the Community's approval, is a saṅghādisesa521