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Parivara (Pali for "accessory") is the third and last book of the Theravadin Vinaya Pitaka. It includes a summary and multiple analyses of the various rules identified in the Vinaya Pitaka's first two books, the Suttavibhanga and the Khandhaka, primarily for didactic purposes. As it includes a long list of teachers in Ceylon, even Theravada fundamentalists recognize that, at least in its present form, it is of late date. Scholars give it a late date, some suggesting it may be even later than the Fourth Council in Ceylon in the last century BCE, at which the Pali Canon was written down from oral tradition.[1] Translation: The Book of the Discipline, tr I. B. Horner, volume VI, 1966, Pali Text Society[1] (http://www.palitext.com) , Lancaster The book is in 19 chapters:

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1. catechisms on the rules of the monks' Patimokkha Texts 2. similar on the nuns' rules 3. verse summary of origins; an action can be Pali Canon originated by body and/or speech, in each of the Commentaries three cases with oir without intention, making six Subcommentaries origins in all; this chapter goes through all the Patimokkha rules for monks and nuns, saying History which of these six are possible 4. in two parts: Pre-sectarian Buddhism Early schools Sthavira Asoka Third Council Vibhajjavada Mahinda Sanghamitta Dipavamsa Mahavamsa Buddhaghosa 1. repetitions on types of legal case involved in offences Doctrine 2. which rules for settling disputes are to be applied to legal cases Sasra Nibbna Middle Way Noble Eightfold Path Four Noble Truths 5. questions on Khandhaka Enlightenment Stages Precepts Three Jewels Outline of Buddhism 6. lists arranged numerically (cf. Anguttara Nikaya) view talk edit (//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Theravada_Buddhism&action=edit) 7. in two parts: 1. beginning the recitation of the Patimokkha 2. exposition of reasons for rules 8. collection of stanzas 9. on legal cases 10. additional collection of stanzas (mainly on reproving) 11. on reproving 12. lesser collection on disputes 13. greater collection on disputes 14. kathina: the process of making up robes 15. Upali asks the Buddha questions, the answers being lists of five 16. another chapter on origins 17. second (sic) collection of stanzas 18. "sweat-inducing stanzas": a collection of riddles (answers not given here); perhaps intended as exam questions" 19. in five parts: 1. formal acts of the sangha 2. reasons for rules 3. laying down of rules 4. what was laid down 5. nine classifications

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Vinaya Pitaka

Notes
1. ^ This work (the Parivara) is in fact a very much later composition, and probably the work of a Ceylonese Thera. from: Book of the Discipline, volume VI, page ix (translators' introduction)

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