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'''The Rite for the Protocols Associated with Carrying the Ringing Staff''' (Tib. འཁར་གསིལ་འཆང་བའི་ཀུན་སྤྱོད་པའི་ཆོ་ག, [[Wyl.]] ''‘khar gsil ‘chang ba’i kun spyod pa’i cho ga'')<ref>This sutra lacks the customary Sanskrit title.</ref> — a short [[sutra]] that deals with the practical matters relating to the use of the mendicant’s staff known in Sanskrit as a ''khakkhara'' (Wyl. ''khar gsil''), or “rattling staff.” It begins with a simple ritual during which a Buddhist monk ceremoniously takes up the ringing staff in front of his monastic teacher. The text then provides a list of twenty-five rules governing the proper use of the staff. The rules stipulate how a Buddhist monk should or should not handle it in his daily life, especially when he goes on alms rounds and when he travels.<ref>84000 Translating the Words of the Buddha.</ref> | |||
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The Rite for the Protocols Associated with Carrying the Ringing Staff (Tib. འཁར་གསིལ་འཆང་བའི་ཀུན་སྤྱོད་པའི་ཆོ་ག, Wyl. ‘khar gsil ‘chang ba’i kun spyod pa’i cho ga)[1] — a short sutra that deals with the practical matters relating to the use of the mendicant’s staff known in Sanskrit as a khakkhara (Wyl. khar gsil), or “rattling staff.” It begins with a simple ritual during which a Buddhist monk ceremoniously takes up the ringing staff in front of his monastic teacher. The text then provides a list of twenty-five rules governing the proper use of the staff. The rules stipulate how a Buddhist monk should or should not handle it in his daily life, especially when he goes on alms rounds and when he travels.[2]
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The Tibetan translation of this sutra can be found in the General Sutra section of the Tibetan Kangyur, Toh 336
- English translation: The Rite for the Protocols Associated with Carrying the Ringing Staff