The first training rule and the origin of monastic law. While the Buddha giving a teaching to people in Vesali, Sudinna, the son of a prominent merchant came and approached the assembly and sat down to one side. After the teaching, Sudinna asked the Buddha for his orination as a monk. Later Monk Sudinna had sexual intercourse with his former wife. Then the Buddha laid down the first training rule thus: “If a monk has sexual intercourse, he is expelled and excluded from the community.”
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Folio 22 on the recto side: In Culaskkarat (CS) 1246, a hap hao year (year of the rooster), on the twelfth waning day of the second [lunar] month, on a huang hao day, the first day of the week (Sunday), the writing of this manuscript was finished at the time of the morning drum (between 7.30–9.00 o’clock), Mae Sao Khon (Mother of Ms. Khon) and her husband and all their children had the religious faith to sponsor the making of this manuscript entitled Vinaya Pitaka to support the Teachings of the Buddha to last until the end of 5000 years. May all our wishes and desires come true. Nibbānaṃ paramaṃ sukhaṃ niccaṃ dhuvaṃ dhuvaṃ sādhu sādhu (Nirvāna is the ultimate happiness, constantly and certainly, Amen! Amen!).