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BURMA UPDATE 173
11 SEPTEMBER 2007
PATTA-NEIIKUZANA:
THE EXCOMMUNIICATIIVE BOYCOTT
Anyone could be boycotted towards excommunication if the following eight
attributes described in Vinaya Scriptures IV, page 262, Silavar Text Commentary 5 are
met:
1) Efforts are made to deny four essential things—i.e. monastery, robes, food,
medicine—to monks
2) Efforts are made to endanger the lives of monks or reduce the numbers of them
3) Efforts are made to deny places of residence to monks
4) Ten kinds of abusive language are used against monks
5) Efforts are made to sow dissension among monks
6) Slander or scorn is made upon Buddha's infinite feat
7) Slander or scorn is made upon Dhamma's infinite faculty
8) Slander or scorn is made upon Sangha's infinite undertaking
"I consent to perform excommunicative boycott against any lay devotee who endeavors to
fulfill any one of above eight attributes," Buddha said in Sulavar Holy Text.
Boycotting does not imply placing the alms bowl upside-down; it means not accepting
four essential things donated by lay people who are being boycotted. The proscribing
monks also advocate the boycotting act to other monks in the world. The purpose of all
this is to make those lay Buddhists who offend noble and good monks realize their mistake
and become well-mannered and civilized. If those lay people regret their misdeeds, really
become good-mannered and respectful, and apologize three times, boycott would be called
off.

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