Scares: if one who is fully ordained, wishing to scare another who is fully ordained, arranges a sight, a sound, a smell, a taste, or a physical contact, then whether the other monk is scared or not, he commits an offense entailing confession. If he tells him about a wilderness inhabited by criminals, predatory animals, or demons, then whether the other monk is scared or not, he commits an offense entailing confession.

Permutations If the other person is fully ordained, and he perceives him as such, and he scares him, he commits an offense entailing confession. If the other person is fully ordained, but he is unsure of it, and he scares him, he commits an offense entailing confession. If the other person is fully ordained, but he does not perceive him as such, and he scares him, he commits an offense entailing confession. If, wishing to scare someone who is not fully ordained, he arranges a sight, a sound, a smell, a taste, or a physical contact, then whether the other person is scared or not, he commits an offense of wrong conduct. If he tells him about a wilderness inhabited by criminals, predatory animals, or demons, then whether the other person is scared or not, he commits an offense of wrong conduct. If the other person is not fully ordained, but he perceives them as such, he commits an offense of wrong conduct. If the other person is not fully ordained, but he is unsure of it, he commits an offense of wrong conduct. If the other person is not fully ordained, and he does not perceive them as such, he commits an offense of wrong conduct.

Non-offenses There is no offense: if he arranges a sight, a sound, a smell, a taste, or a physical contact, or he tells about a wilderness inhabited by criminals, predatory animals, or demons, but not because he wishes to scare anyone; if he is insane; if he is the first offender. The training rule on scaring a monk, the fifth, is finished.

Theravāda Collection on Monastic Law The Great Analysis The chapter on offenses entailing confession The subchapter on drinking alcohol Lighting a fire

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