{"id":5284,"date":"2023-11-15T11:30:05","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T15:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/?p=5284"},"modified":"2023-11-15T11:30:05","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T15:30:05","slug":"abandoning-the-monastic-training-rules-in-the-pali-canon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/2023\/11\/15\/abandoning-the-monastic-training-rules-in-the-pali-canon\/","title":{"rendered":"Abandoning the Monastic Training Rules in the P\u0101li Canon"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6>ISSN 1076-9005<br \/>\nVolume 30, 2023<\/h6>\n<h3>The Function and Contemporary Role of <em>sikkh\u0101paccakkh\u0101na<\/em> (Abandoning the Training Rules) in the P\u0101li Canon<\/h3>\n<p>Chandima Gangodawila<br \/>\nRonin Institute<\/p>\n<p>This article examines the intricacies of abandoning the monastic training rules (<em>sikkh\u0101paccakkh\u0101na<\/em>) in key P\u0101li <em>s\u016btta<\/em> and <em>Vinaya<\/em> texts to better understand how these textual sources, in addition to early modern Sri Lankan monastics as well as the contemporary <em>sa\u1e45gha<\/em>, have understood the abandonment of the training rules not as a spiritual failure, but rather as a set of pragmatic monastic principles that emphasize the retention of monkhood and the continuity of the <em>Buddhas\u0101sana<\/em>. To demonstrate this, I propose an innovative approach to examining the first <em>p\u0101r\u0101jika<\/em> (concerning sexual intercourse) in relation to the <em>sikkh\u0101paccakkh\u0101na<\/em> by considering P\u0101li <em>s\u016bttas<\/em>, <em>Vinaya<\/em> texts, and the example of noncelibate seventeenth-century La\u1e45k\u0101n <em>ga\u0146inn\u0101nse<\/em> (non-<em>bhikkhu<\/em> monks). I conclude by arguing that the contemporary Sri Lankan <em>sa\u1e45gha<\/em> can use <em>sikkh\u0101paccakkh\u0101na<\/em> to avoid falling into the first <em>p\u0101r\u0101jika<\/em>, which provides a basis for reordination and thus a more human-centered framework for supporting the stability and duration of the <em>Buddhas\u0101sana<\/em>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/files\/2023\/11\/Gangodawila_23_FD.pdf\"> Read article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISSN 1076-9005 Volume 30, 2023 The Function and Contemporary Role of sikkh\u0101paccakkh\u0101na (Abandoning the Training Rules) in the P\u0101li Canon Chandima Gangodawila Ronin Institute This article examines the intricacies of abandoning the monastic training rules (sikkh\u0101paccakkh\u0101na) in key P\u0101li s\u016btta and Vinaya texts to better understand how these textual sources, in addition to early modern &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/2023\/11\/15\/abandoning-the-monastic-training-rules-in-the-pali-canon\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Abandoning the Monastic Training Rules in the P\u0101li Canon<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[333275],"tags":[2663,2678,2670,2613,2592],"class_list":["post-5284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-volume-30-2023","tag-indian-buddhism","tag-monasticism","tag-nuns","tag-sri-lanka","tag-theravada"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5X8HA-1ne","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}