Expulsion 3

Origin Story

At that time, Upāli asked the Buddha again: “The World-honored One has laid down the precept for the bhikkhus: ‘If a bhikkhu kills a human being or a human-like being, … doesn’t live in community.’ How should I remember this?” The Buddha said: “You should remember it as to be practised by both sanghas. From now on, this precept should be recited thus:

Final Ruling

‘If a bhikkhunī kills a human being or a human-like being, either herself, or by giving them a knife or poison, or by instructing people to kill, or by instructing people to commit suicide, praising and commending death: “Hey you, what use is this bad life? Death is better than living on!”, thus creating such intentions and following them to kill, and if someone dies because of these various causes, that bhikkhunī incurs a pārājika, and doesn’t live in community.’”

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