Author: Dhamma Paññā

CHAPTER SEVEN Monastery Buildings & Property Monasteries One of the earliest allowances in the Buddha’s teaching career was for accepting the

CHAPTER SIX Lodgings The Pali word senāsana—literally meaning “sleeping place and sitting place” and translated here as “lodging”—covers outdoor resting spots, buildings

CHAPTER FIVE Medicine The Great Section on Virtue in the Sāmaññaphala Sutta (DN 2) lists the types of wrong livelihood from which

CHAPTER FOUR Food The three main classes of food—staple foods, non-staple foods, and juice drinks—have already been discussed in BMC1 under

CHAPTER THREE Alms Bowls & Other Accessories Alms bowls The alms bowl is another requisite that a candidate for ordination must

CHAPTER TWO Cloth Requisites A bhikkhu has four primary requisites—robe-cloth, food, lodgings, and medicine—and a variety of secondary ones. This and

part one General CHAPTER ONE Personal Grooming A bhikkhu should be clean, neat, and unostentatious in his appearance, as a reflection

The Khandhakas THE KHANDHAKAS—literally, “Collections”—form the second major portion of the Vinaya Piṭaka, following the Sutta Vibhaṅga and preceding the

The Buddhist Monastic Code II Copyright third edition, revised: 2013 Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu This work is licensed under the Creative Commons

Addendum A factor analysis for the Pāṭimokkha rules whose explanations were not framed in that format:   Sg 12: 1) Effort: a)

Select Bibliography Primary sources For the Pali Canon, I have used the Thai edition published in Bangkok by Mahāmakut Rājavidyālaya

Rule Index This index lists the summaries of the training rules given in this book, organized by topic. The Sekhiya

Glossary This glossary is designed to help the reader in two sorts of situations: (1) when encountering a Pali term

CHAPTER TWELVE Appendices I. Controversial points: Dawn and dawnrise In a number of rules where the boundary between two days is

CHAPTER ELEVEN Adhikaraṇa-samatha This term means “the settling of issues.” The seven rules in this section are actually principles and procedures

CHAPTER TEN Sekhiya This term means “to be trained in.” There are 75 training rules in this category, divided by subject

CHAPTER NINE Pāṭidesanīya This term means “to be acknowledged.” As a name for training rules, it means “entailing acknowledgement.” The four