Author : Tomás Morales y Durán
Publisher : Libros de Verdad
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Book Synopsis VN1 - The Discipline of the Buddha by : Tomás Morales y Durán
Download or read book VN1 - The Discipline of the Buddha written by Tomás Morales y Durán and published by Libros de Verdad. This book was released on 2024-03-31 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vinaya means Discipline. The monastic discipline, comprising about three thousand pages in printed text, whose rules and traditions ended up defining every particular aspect of the way of life of the bhikkhus and bhikkhunīs. The essence of the rules for the bhikkhus is contained in the Pātimokkha, the Ascetic Codes. The conjunction of the Dhamma with the Vinaya forms the core of the Buddha's doctrine, the "Dhamma-Vinaya", that is, the Teaching and the Discipline. The purpose of the Pātimokkha was to give a good image to the laity who were the ones who ultimately supported, sustained and maintained this community. In the beginning, not many rules were needed, the first bhikkhus were decent and responsible people and were under the control of the Buddha himself. However, the fame of the good life in the Sangha eventually became a magnet for bums, hustlers and scoundrels looking to live on the side, a tradition that has remained unchanged to this day. This avalanche of people led the Buddha to have to delegate the new ordinations to the bhikkhus themselves, which led to a myriad of conflicts that the Buddha dealt with by creating a battery of rules to control so many undesirables, so that they would not damage the image of the Sangha in general, essential for the laity to continue to maintain it. The rules did not apply to him, his friends or his family. The rules are exclusively to control the Sangha. For example, notorious murderers cannot be given renunciation, but the Buddha gives it to Aṅgulimāla, or exemption from the four months' probation for sakkās. It should be noted that it is not in any case about rules referring to the practice of liberation, which is collected in the suttas and is common to laymen, laywomen, bhikkhus and bhikkhunīs, but only and exclusively to maintain the harmony and the good image of a heterogeneous community, culturally located in its time and culture and spread in a subcontinent where history had not yet dawned. This first text, The Great Chapter of the Great Division, is fundamental to know the first years of the wheel of the Teaching.
