Vinaya Studies
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The practical study of the monastic code, primarily by and for monastics seeking to hone their discipline.
Ajahn Geoff uncovers his alms bowl to receive rice from a family in downtown Portland one brisk October morning in 2008. (Mary Reinard, BY-SA 3.0)
Table of Contents
- Articles (12)
- Audio/Video (6)
- Booklets (6)
- Canonical Works (11)
- Essays (10)
- Monographs (1)
- Papers (2)
- Reference Shelf (2)
Articles (12)
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A spiritual community is nothing if it cannot take care of its most vulnerable.
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This paper introduces a new distinction between the ‘formal’ and the ‘practical’ canon[…] in medieval Sri Lanka. I show that few monks encountered the [Vinaya] in anything close to its full form.
[Rather,] Monastic leaders considered the Anumāna, Dasadhamma and (Karaniya)metta Suttas to be [the important sources] for monastic education. -
the saṃgha is a collective body of people who wish to live doing only what they love to do—that is, Buddhist practices.
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the relevant Pāli data about [ten technical] terms occurring in the Vinaya, [its commentaries] and in secondary literature
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Vinaya narration like the Sudinna tale does not function in a way comparable to a record of case law precedents in modern judicial proceedings. Instead, the stories need to be understood in terms of their teaching function
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If the frustrated zombie turns back on the instigator and kills him, the monk incurs a heavy fault. I do not know whether there are any other cases of posthumous penalties in the monastic codes, but here we have at least one.
Audio/Video (6)
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Textual fundamentalism requires texts.
Booklets (6)
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Slightly less conservatively preserved than the monks’, the Bhikkhunī Pātimokkha should be studied comparatively to get a sense for what their original rules might have been: a scholarly process which continues to this day.
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A simple comparison of the Theravāda and Mahāyāna Pātimokkhas.
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In the 1970s, Ajahn Brahm began writing his own translation of and commentary on the Vinaya in order to support his fellow, Western monks who, at the time, lacked such a resource in English.
Canonical Works (11)
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Bhikkhus, there are these three authorities. What three? Oneself as one’s authority, the world as one’s authority, and the Dhamma as one’s authority.
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A dispute about livelihood or about the Pātimokkha would be trifling, Ānanda. But should a dispute arise in the Sangha about the path or the way, such a dispute would be for the harm and unhappiness of many
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The present compilation brings together in English translation the most important Pali Vinaya texts dealing with the first rule in the Sanghādisesa section of the Bhikkhu Pātimokkha: the training rule on intentional emission of semen — one of the disciplinary rules most fundamental to [a bhikkhu’s] training.
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The Buddha tells a short fable about a turtle to warn the monks about infatuation with fame.
Essays (10)
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A short essay on what the path is to become a Theravada Monastic.
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Paying money to this teacher I came to an understanding of the values of “This World.”
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the owners of the monastery are the worldwide and “timewide” community of monks and nuns
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An overview of some of the Vinaya rules regarding communally owned property according to the Theravada Tradition.
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Sangha decisions are always made locally. The Vinaya doesn’t countenance centralized, monastic authority.
Monographs (1)
Papers (2)
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A comparison of the Pācittiya rules of the six schools for monks exhorting nuns showing that there is widespread agreement on Pā 21, 22, and 24 but significant disagreement between the Vinayas regarding Pā 23.