40b: The Last Days 2, In Vajji – 1560
1. There are the four directive principles concerning the four great
authorities in the Collection of the Long Discourses (
Dīgha-nikāya
).
2. Four directive principles on the subject as taught in the Great Division
(Vin
Mahā-vagga
).
3. Four types of answers corresponding to four types of questions called
the four answers (
vyākaraṇa
).
4. The four Disciplines (
Vinaya
).
5. The three Great Councils.
6. The four great authorities as taught in the discourses. These are what
has been described above.
7. The four great authorities as taught in the Discipline (Vin
Mahā-vagga
,
6).
Four directive principles are laid down by the Buddha regarding what sort of
medicinal preparation is proper for monastics:
1. Monastics, a certain drug is not specifically mentioned by me as
improper for use by monastics, yet if it tends towards impropriety and
rules out any possibility of propriety, in the light of the Vinaya rules,
then consider it as being improper for use.
2. Monastics, a certain drug is not specifically mentioned by me as
improper for use by monastics, and if, in the light of the Vinaya rules, it
tends towards propriety and rules out any possibility of its impropriety,
then consider it as being proper for use.
3. Monastics, a certain drug is not specifically mentioned by me as proper
for use by monastics, and if it tends towards impropriety and rules out
any possibility of propriety in the light of the Vinaya rules, then
consider it as being improper of use.
4. Monastics, a certain drug is not specifically mentioned by me as proper
for use by monastics, and if it tends towards impropriety and rules out
any possibility of propriety in the light of the Vinaya rules, then
consider it as being improper of use by monastics, and if it tends
towards propriety and rules out any possibility of its impropriety in the
light of the Vinaya rules, then consider it as being proper for use.