Tripitakas -- Three sacred scriptures in Buddhism. VinayapiTaka -- The treatise dealing with discipline.pATimokka (praatimooksham) -- Fornightly confessional and corrective Review Meeting of monks and nuns about the status of their discipline. Bhikkunii pATImokka -- -do- for nuns.
pAcittIyams -- Atonements, and reparations.
bhikkunii pAcittIyams -- -do- for nuns.
bhikkunI nissaggika pAcittIyams --Confessions and atonements for intentional deviations.
Chapter 5 Cittagaara vagga
No. 22 : A bhikkuni spinning Yarn has to undergo paacittiyam. (A nun spinning yarn has to confess and undergo atonement).
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What a rule is this!
Does it make any sense?
It is true that the words 'sinful' and 'sacred' are too abstract. They do not have proper definitions. They depend on the beholders' eyes and minds.
Gandhiji regarded spinning as a very sacred activity. He, everyday spent , some time on his charkha (spinning wheel).
Spinning is a very productive work in my personal view also. Spinning yarn and weaving coarse as well as fine garments, supplemented the income of rural families medieval and British India. The development of composite textile mill machine weaving at Glasgow and Manchester struck a death blow on the fine art of Indian spinning and weaving. Fingers of Indian weavers were severed so as to make them unfit to carry on spinning and weaving activity and thus convert India into a textile importer from being a leading textile exporter. The East India Company levied adverse taxes on India to benefit the British Textile Mills.
The Buddhist code of conduct for the Bhikkunis seems to be very unkind to mankind!
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