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# The Buddhist Monastic Code
Volume II

## The Khandhaka Rules
Translated & Explained

### by
Thanissaro Bhikkhu
(Geoffrey DeGraff)

Copyright © 2002 Thanissaro Bhikkhu

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Revised: Thu 14 March 2002

## Contents

- A Note About This HTML Edition
- Abbreviations
- Preface
- Introduction: The Khandhakas
- Part I: GENERAL
  - Chapter 1: Personal Grooming
  - Chapter 2: Cloth Requisites
  - Chapter 3: Alms Bowls & Other Requisites
  - Chapter 4: Food
  - Chapter 5: Medicine
  - Chapter 6: Lodgings
  - Chapter 7: Monastery Buildings & Property
  - Chapter 8: Respect
  - Chapter 9: Protocols
  - Chapter 10: Misbehavior
  - Chapter 11: Rains-residence
- Part II: COMMUNITY TRANSACTIONS
  - Chapter 12: Community Transactions
  - Chapter 13: Territories
  - Chapter 14: Ordination
  - Chapter 15: Uposatha
  - Chapter 16: Invitation
  - Chapter 17: Kathina
  - Chapter 18: Community Officials
  - Chapter 19: Penance & Probation
  - Chapter 20: Disciplinary Transactions
  - Chapter 21: Schism
  - Chapter 22: Inheritance
- Part III: CO-RELIGIONISTS
  - Chapter 23: Bhikkhunis
  - Chapter 24: Novices
- Appendix I: General Transaction Statements
  - A. Territories
  - B. Uposatha Halls
  - C. Community Officials
  - D. Kathina
  - E. Giving Robes & Bowl
  - F. Shortened Community Invitations
  - G. Invitation-delay
- Appendix II: Going-forth & Acceptance
- Appendix III: Vutthana-vidhi for Sanghadisesa Offenses
- Appendix IV: Disciplinary Transactions
- Appendix V: Technical Terms
  - A. Sampatti
  - B. Samvasa
  - C. Anamasa
  - D. Agocara
- Glossary
- Bibliography

## A Note About This HTML Edition

In this transcription of The Buddhist Monastic Code (Volume II), the diacritical marks in the Pali passages for recitation and chanting are represented using plain ASCII characters according to the "Velthuis scheme," a convention widely used on the Internet by Pali students and scholars. Long vowels (those usually typeset with a bar above them) are doubled: aa ii uu. For consonants, the diacritic mark precedes the letter it affects. Thus, the retroflex (cerebral) consonants (usually typeset with a dot underneath) are: .r .t .th .d .dh .n .m .s .l . The guttural nasals (m or n with a dot above) are represented by "m and "n . The palatal nasal is represented here as ñ.

-- jtb

Revised: Thu 14 March 2002