Confession 122

Origin Story

At that time, the bhikkhunīs gave the full ordination to students, and didn’t take them away from their original place. When their former male aquaintances saw them, defiled attachment arose in their minds, and they then fooled around and spoke coarse, unwholesome words about sexual desire. When the senior bhikkhunīs saw it, they criticized them in all kinds of ways, … “I now lay down a precept for the bhikkhunīs, as explained above. From now on, this precept should be recited thus:

Final Ruling

‘If a bhikkhunī takes on a student, and doesn’t take her away herself or has others take her away from her original place five or six yojanas, it’s a pācittiya.’”

Explanations

“Her original place” means her birthplace, or the place where she married.

If the student isn’t from there, the offense isn’t committed.