Motif
communal ritual synchronization by calendar and number
communal_ritual_synchronization_by_calendar_and_number
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.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
buddhist
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Vinaya Texts, Part I: The Patimokkha, The Mahavagga I-IV (Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 13) I, 64, I. ADMISSION TO THE ORDER OF BHIKKHUS. / I, 75. ADMISSION TO THE ORDER OF BHIKKHUS. 22Q / SECOND KHANDHAKA. / IT, 34, 2. UPOSATHA CEREMONY, AND PATIMOKKHA. 2QI; lines 13405-13548 confidence: high
When resident and incoming Bhikkhus count the Uposatha day as fourteenth or fifteenth differently, accommodation is prescribed according to whether the resident group, incoming group, or neither is greater in number.
The passage regulates how resident and incoming Bhikkhus synchronize Uposatha when they count the day differently, using relative numbers to determine accommodation.
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