Suspension 3

Origin Story

The venerable Upāli asked the Buddha again: “The World-honored One has laid down the precept for the bhikkhus: ‘If a bhikkhu himself doesn’t act according to dhamma, and because of unwholesome anger takes an aspect, or something similar to an aspect, of a different matter … it’s a saṅghādisesa.’ 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 herself doesn’t act according to dhamma, and because of unwholesome anger takes an aspect, or something similar to an aspect, of a different matter and slanders a bhikkhunī, who hasn’t commited a pārājika, with a pārājika, wanting to destroy her monastic life, and if that bhikkhunī at a later time, whether questioned or not questioned, says: “I took an aspect, or something similar to an aspect, of a different matter, and slandered that bhikkhunī because I was harboring anger,” she commits an immediate saṅghādisesa, from which one can repent.’”

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