僧殘

Readings

Pinyin: sēngcán

Wade-Giles: seng-ts'an

Hangul: 승잔

Korean MC: seungjan

Korean MR: sŭngjan

Katakana: ソウザン

Hepburn: sōzan

tăng tàn

crimes for which one may not necessarily be excommunicated

• One of the five categories of precepts 五篇; one of the eight categories of the prātimokṣa 波羅提木叉. Rules which require a formal meeting to determine punishment; thirteen offenses requiring the punishment of temporary excommunication, from which the sinful monk is relieved only by confession before the other monks. (Skt. saṃghâvaśeṣa, saṃghâtiśeṣa; Pāli, saṅghādiśeṣa; Tib. dge slong gi spang bya lhag ma). In the Mahāsāṃghika-vinaya the offender must reflect by him/herself alone for six days, after which s/he must repent before a council of 26 monks/nuns: These are rules against:
  1. Intentional emission of semen (except during a dream)—masturbation 故出精
  2. With defiled thoughts, having physical contact with a woman; touching a woman's body; 摩觸女人
  3. With defiled thoughts, speaking sexually suggestive words ["talking dirty"] with a woman; complaining about a monk's life to court a woman's sympathy 與女人粗語
  4. With defiled thoughts, offering and praising sexual services 向女人歎身索供
  5. Acting as a go-between for sexual services; matchmaking 媒人
  6. Having an inappropriate hut built for oneself 過量房
  7. Having an inappropriate vihāra built for the saṃgha; solicitation for the donation of a big house 有主僧不處分房
  8. Falsely, and with malice, accusing another monk 無根重罪謗他
  9. Taking up a legal question as a pretext to falsely accuse another monk; undue denunciation of a good monk by an indirect and allegorical method 假根謗
  10. Taking action leading to a schism in the saṃgha 破僧違諫
  11. Following a schismatic monk; lending assistance to the violators of the saṃgha 助破僧違諫
  12. Corrupting families; partiality to a particular person with the hope of receiving a donation; 家擯謗違僧諫
  13. Not taking the advice of other monks to abandon evil ways 惡性拒僧違諫
  〔四分律 T 1428.22.579a10〕 [resp. Charles Muller, Paul Swanson; source(s): JEBD, Nakamura,YBh-Ind, Hirakawa, Yokoi, Iwanami]

Dictionary References:

Bukkyō jiten (Ui), 663

Bulgyo sajeon, 503II

Zengaku daijiten (Komazawa U.), 730d

Iwanami bukkyō jiten, 511

Japanese-English Buddhist Dictionary (Daitō shuppansha), 309b/344

Japanese-English Zen Buddhist Dictionary (Yokoi), 737

Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura), 874d

Fo Guang Dictionary, 5742

Ding Fubao

Buddhist Chinese-Sanskrit Dictionary (Hirakawa), 0149

Bukkyō daijiten (Mochizuki), (v.1-6)3060a,679a

Bukkyō daijiten (Oda), 1075-2

Copyright © 2010 -- Charles Muller

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