THE BUDDHIST MONASTIC CODE
                                           
                     The Patimokkha Training Rules
                        Translated and Explained
                                           
                                   by
                                           
                           Thanissaro Bhikkhu
                           (Geoffrey DeGraff)
   
   
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                   Copyright 1994 Thanissaro Bhikkhu
                                           
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      "Now, Ananda, if it occurs to any of you -- 'The teaching has 
      lost its authority; we are without a Teacher' -- do not view it 
      in that way.  Whatever Dhamma and Vinaya I have pointed out and 
      formulated for you, that will be your Teacher when I am gone."
      
                                                         -- D. 16
                                                         
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