BUDDHIST MONASTIC CODE I

Rule IndexKeeping an alms bowl for more than ten days without determining it for use orplacing it under shared ownership is a nissaggiya pācittiya offense. (NP 21)Asking for and receiving a new alms bowl when one's current bowl is not beyondrepair is a nissaggiya pācittiya offense. (NP 22)Acquiring a needle box made of bone, ivory, or horn after making it — or having itmade — for one's own use is a pācittiya offense requiring that one break the boxbefore confessing the offense. (Pc 86)Communal HarmonyTo persist — after the third announcement of a formal rebuke in the Community —in trying to form a schismatic group or in taking up a position that can lead toschism is a saṅghādisesa offense. (Sg 10)To persist — after the third announcement of a formal rebuke in the Community —in supporting a potential schismatic is a saṅghādisesa offense. (Sg 11)To persist — after the third announcement of a formal rebuke in the Community —in being difficult to admonish is a saṅghādisesa offense. (Sg 12)To persist — after the third announcement of a formal rebuke in the Community —in criticizing a banishment transaction performed against oneself is a saṅghādisesaoffense. (Sg 13)When a trustworthy female lay follower accuses a bhikkhu of having committed apārājika, saṅghādisesa, or pācittiya offense while sitting alone with a woman in anunsecluded but private place, the Community should investigate the charge anddeal with the bhikkhu in accordance with whatever he admits to having done. (Ay 1)When a trustworthy female lay follower accuses a bhikkhu of having committed asaṅghādisesa or pācittiya offense while sitting alone with a woman in a privateplace, the Community should investigate the charge and deal with the bhikkhu inaccordance with whatever he admits to having done. (Ay 2)Telling an unordained person of another bhikkhu's serious offense — unless one isauthorized by the Community to do so — is a pācittiya offense. (Pc 9)Persistently replying evasively or keeping silent in order to conceal one's ownoffenses when being questioned in a meeting of the Community — after a formalcharge of evasive speech or being frustrating has been brought against one — is apācittiya offense. (Pc 12)If a Community official is innocent of bias: Criticizing him within earshot of anotherbhikkhu is a pācittiya offense. (Pc 13)523