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breach of any of the rules, he incurs Defeat and must not 
afterwards live in the community of monks deprived as he is 
of their privileges. 
n this respect I ask, O brethren, ‘‘are you perfectly 
pure ? ps A second time and a third time I ask, ‘‘ O brethren, 
are you perfectly pure ?’ In this respect the brethren are 
perfectly pure, therefore they say nothing, so do 1 under- 
stand. 
THIRTEEN RULES REGARDING SUSPENSION FROM Monkuoop. 
sss ssn EL RATE AEN NBS 
Dge-hdun-lhag-mahi-chos-beu-gsum.! 
Sanghadhisesah. 
Summary.—Emission of semen, contact, discourse, bodily 
service, intermediation, house, monastery, eroundle ess, & mere 
trifle, nee dissension, siding, corrupting family, and harsh 
Speec 
Here are, O brethren. thirteen rules regarding Suspension 
sam monklood as known from the So-sor- thar-pa recited each 
_ 1. A conscious emission of semen, except in a dream, is a 
sin which causes Suspension from monkhood. 
_-» Whatsoever monk comes, with a perverted mind, into 
bodily contact with a woman or ponte hold of her hand or 
oulder or braid of hair, or touches any other parts of her 
ody for enjoyment, commite a sin which causes aacbeialon 
ftom monkhood. 
- Whatsoever tbe holds, with a perverted mind, 
Vicious sen with a oman regarding sexual iidevbistis: 
seh a8 a youth would hola ith a damsel, commits a sin 
ood. 
e 4. Whatsoever monk, in order 683 secure the bodily service 
& Woman to himself, says, with a perverted mind, in her 
tito the 
ea vs act of intercourse, to a monk of such character, 
te purity as myself, is the best of all services’ 
)extling the woman’s bodily service, commits a sin whist 
uses Suspension from monkho 
icy - Whatsoever monk by conveying the words of a man to 
oman or those of a woman to a man acts as an intermediary 
which Sanskrit equivalent for the Tibetan word is ‘‘ Sangh@dhisesa” 
m st ““residue of monks”, ‘‘the refuse of mon or ‘‘ the 
we. in P nded.”* It should be ten however co the corresponding 
ae te Bad nghad ” which signifies sins the atonement for 
val ag aites Soe presence of the Sangh caicuaniai-i at the beginning as 
