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Vinaya and Monastic Discipline
Pali Vinaya texts and early monastic discipline for the Buddhist sangha.
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Texts
Vinaya Pitaka — Khandhaka — Mahavagga and Cullavagga — Bhikkhu BrahmaliThe Vinaya Pitaka's narrative and procedural chapters -- ordination, the observance day, robes, legal procedure, schism, and the two councils -- in Bhikkhu Brahmali's CC0 translation.Vinaya Pitaka — Parivara — The Compendium — Bhikkhu BrahmaliThe Vinaya Pitaka's supplementary compendium and catechism -- numerical summaries, mnemonic verses, and study dialogues -- in Bhikkhu Brahmali's CC0 translation.Vinaya Pitaka — Suttavibhanga — The Bhikkhus and Bhikkhunis Rule Analysis — Bhikkhu BrahmaliComplete rule-by-rule legal analysis of the monks' and nuns' training rules from the Pali Vinaya Pitaka, in Bhikkhu Brahmali's CC0 translation -- a monastic legal code, not devotional reading.Vinaya Pitaka — The Patimokkha — The Monastic Code Recited — Bhikkhu BrahmaliThe fortnightly recitation liturgy of the Buddhist monastic community -- the Monks' and Nuns' Monastic Codes in brief, chanted form -- in Bhikkhu Brahmali's CC0 translation.Vinaya Texts, Part I — Rhys Davids and OldenbergThe Patimokkha and the Mahavagga from the Vinaya Pitaka, the monastic code of the Buddhist order, translated from Pali by T.W. Rhys Davids and Hermann Oldenberg. Volume XIII of the Sacred Books of the East.Vinaya Texts, Part II — Rhys Davids and OldenbergThe Mahavagga (continued) and the Kullavagga from the Vinaya Pitaka, covering the rules of the Buddhist monastic order, translated from Pali by T.W. Rhys Davids and Hermann Oldenberg. Volume XVII of the Sacred Books of the East.Vinaya Texts, Part III — Rhys Davids and OldenbergThe Kullavagga (continued) from the Vinaya Pitaka, including the accounts of the First and Second Buddhist Councils, translated from Pali by T.W. Rhys Davids and Hermann Oldenberg. Volume XX of the Sacred Books of the East.