Confession 133

Origin Story

At that time, the bhikkhunīs pointed at Chandasumanā from a distance, and talked about her disputes. Then she said that they were abusing her, and also loudly screamed: “The bhikkhunīs are abusing me!” The bhikkhunīs then went and asked her: “How did we abuse you? You don’t even know what we said.” When the senior bhikkhunīs heard it, they criticized her in all kinds of ways: “Why does a bhikkhunī misunderstand what others say and lie, saying that they abuse her?” … “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 misunderstands what others say, and lies and maligns them, it’s a pācittiya.’”

Explanations

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

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