After the motion, they commit an offense of wrong conduct. After each of the first two announcements, they commit a serious offense. When the last announcement is finished, they commit an offense entailing suspension. For those who commit the offense entailing suspension, the offense of wrong conduct and the serious offenses are annulled. Two or three may be pressed together, but not more than that. Those nuns too: this is said with reference to the preceding offenses. After the third announcement: there is an offense when they have been pressed for the third time, not as soon as the misconduct has been committed. Entailing sending away: they are sent away from the Sangha. Suspension: … Therefore, too, it is called an offense entailing suspension.

Permutations If it is a legitimate legal procedure, and they perceive it as such, and they do not stop, they commit an offense entailing suspension. If it is a legitimate legal procedure, but they are unsure of it, and they do not stop, they commit an offense entailing suspension. If it is a legitimate legal procedure, but they perceive it as illegitimate, and they do not stop, they commit an offense entailing suspension. If it is an illegitimate legal procedure, but they perceive it as legitimate, they commit an offense of wrong conduct. If it is an illegitimate legal procedure, but they are unsure of it, they commit an offense of wrong conduct. If it is an illegitimate legal procedure, and they perceive it as such, they commit an offense of wrong conduct.

Non-offenses There is no offense: if they have not been pressed; if they stop; if they are insane; if they are the first offenders. The twelfth offense entailing suspension is finished.

Theravāda Collection on Monastic Law The Nuns’ Analysis The chapter on offenses entailing suspension Encouraging inappropriate socializing

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