Cullavagga - Tenth Khandhaka: Chapter 26

1. Now at that time a certain Bhikkhunî first abandoned the precepts, and then
threw off the robes 1. Afterwards she came back, and asked the Bhikkhunîs to
admit her into the Order again.
They told this matter to the Blessed One.
'A Bhikkhunî ought not, O Bhikkhus, to abandon the precepts. But by having
thrown off the robes she is ipso facto incapable of being a Bhikkhunî.'
2. Now at that time a certain Bhikkhunî, though still wearing the
orange-coloured robe, joined a sect of the Titthiyas. Afterwards she came back,
and asked the Bhikkhunîs to receive her into the Order again.
They told this matter to the Blessed One. .
'A Bhikkhunî, O Bhikkhus, who, when still wearing the orange-coloured robe, has
gone over to the Titthiyas, is not to be received again 2.'



Footnotes
366:1 On the distinction between these two phrases, see the note on Mahâvagga
II, 22, 3.
366:2 For the similar rule in the case of Bhikkhus, see Mahâvagga I, 38, 1.