Expulsion 4

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 doesn’t know and doesn’t see a superhuman state … 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 doesn’t know and doesn’t see a superhuman state, the completion of a noble attainment, and praises herself: “I know this, I see this,” and if that bhikkhunī at a later time, whether questioned or not questioned, in order to clear the offense and to seek purification, says this: “I not knowing said I know, not seeing said I see. It was empty, untrue, false speech,” except in a case of superiority conceit, that bhikkhunī incurs a pārājika, and doesn’t live in community.’”

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