Soon afterwards in a certain monastery, they designated two different observance-day halls. Monks gathered in both places, each group thinking, “The observance-day ceremony will be done here.” They told the Buddha. “You shouldn’t designate two different observance-day halls within the same monastery. If you do, you commit an offense of wrong conduct. You should abolish one of them and do the observance-day ceremony in one place.

And it should be abolished like this. A competent and capable monk should inform the Sangha: ‘Please, venerables, I ask the Sangha to listen. If the Sangha is ready, it should abolish such-and-such an observance-day hall. This is the motion. Please, venerables, I ask the Sangha to listen. The Sangha abolishes such-and-such an observance-day hall. Any monk who approves of abolishing such-and-such an observance-day hall should remain silent. Any monk who doesn’t approve should speak up. The Sangha has abolished such-and-such an observance-day hall. The Sangha approves and is therefore silent. I will remember it thus.’”

6. The allowance for an observance-day forecourt