Motif
Calendrical and numerical ordering of the community
calendrical_and_numerical_ordering_of_the_community
A motif of the Sacred Time and Ritual Cycle family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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buddhist
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Vinaya Texts, Part I: The Patimokkha, The Mahavagga I-IV (Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 13) I, 54, 5. ADMISSION TO THE ORDER OF BHIKKHUS. 2OQ / I, 64, I. ADMISSION TO THE ORDER OF BHIKKHUS. / I, 75. ADMISSION TO THE ORDER OF BHIKKHUS. 22Q / SECOND KHANDHAKA.; lines 12383-12572 confidence: high
At Ra^agaha, people ask alms-going Bhikkhus what day of the half-month it is; the Bhikkhus do not know, the people criticize them, and the Blessed One prescribes that all learn to count the half-month days.
The Bhikkhus are instructed to learn the half-month count, count the Bhikkhus on Uposatha, and proclaim Uposatha so monks do not miss the Patimokkha.
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