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A monk needs to know 10 or more purvas to be jinkalpi. All other monks with lesser knowledge were Sthavirkalpi and were allowed to drape clothes. [14] Bhadrabahu and Sthulabhadra are both considered to have been sthavirkalpi monks by Śvetāmbaras and that Śvetāmbaras believe they were white-clad.
Love play can make you immortal. The autumn breeze of a single night of love is better than a hundred thousand years of sterile sitting meditation . . . Stilted koans and convoluted answers are all monks have, Pandering endlessly to officials and rich patrons. Good friends of the Dharma, so proud, let me tell you,
Therefore, o monks, do not brood over [any of these views] Such brooding, O monks, is senseless, has nothing to do with genuine pure conduct (s. ādibrahmacariyaka-sīla), does not lead to aversion, detachment, extinction, nor to peace, to full comprehension, enlightenment and Nibbāna, etc. [17]
The Australian monk Shravasti Dhammika is also critical of contemporary practice based on this work. [22] He concludes that Buddhaghosa did not believe that following the practice set forth in the Visuddhimagga will really lead him to Nirvana, basing himself on the postscript to the Visuddhimagga: [ 22 ]
The aniyata are two indefinite rules where a monk is accused of having committed an offence with a woman in a screened (enclosed) or private place by a lay person. It is indefinite because the final outcome depends on whether the monk acknowledges the offence. Benefit of the doubt is given to the monk unless there is over-riding evidence.
Readable online HTML book of the Dhammasangani (first book of the Abhidhamma). Vibhaṅga - 'The Book of Analysis' Dhātukathā - 'Discourse on Elements' Puggalapaññatti - 'A Designation of Human Types' Kathāvatthu - 'Points of Controversy' Yamaka - The Book on Pairs; Paṭṭhāna - The Book of Conditions or 'Conditional Relations' Part 1
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They rent a computer capable of printing all the possible permutations, and hire two Westerners to install and program the machine. The computer operators are skeptical but play along. After three months, as the job nears completion, they fear that the monks will blame the computer (and, by extension, its operators) when nothing happens.