Confession 130

Origin Story

At that time, the bhikkhunīs gave food with their own hands to lay men and non-Buddhist male renunciates. They thought: “These bhikkhunīs must have given me food with a mind of defiled attachment.” Then they fooled around and spoke coarse, unwholesome words about sexual desire. When the senior bhikkhunīs heard 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 gives food with her own hands to lay men or non-Buddhist male renunciates, it’s a pācittiya.’”

Explanations

For a sikkhamānā and a sāmaṇerī, it’s a dukkaṭa.

If she doesn’t give it with her own hands, or if she gives with her own hands to relatives, in both cases the offense isn’t committed.

(130.)