Korea Journal of Buddhist StudiesISSN:1598-0642(Print)불교학연구회

The purpose of this study is to consider the criterion for judgement on the saṃgha’s harmony focused on the definition of harmony in the Pāli Vinay a. The prior studies have discussed about this subject, in those researches, however, it has generally been understood that the ‘common execution’ of kamma practiced in sammukhībhūta - saṃgha (現前僧伽), seeming to denote very important symbolic of the saṃgha’s harmony, is the only ritual ceremony that all monks in the same boundary must participate. In this study I would like to suggest the fact that the ‘common execution’ of kamma was not only the ritual ceremony, but also the ceremony requiring the perfect union of mind among the members of saṃgha by investigating the meaning of the samānasaṃvāsaka in the Pāli Vinaya. That On the criterion for judgement on the saṃgha’s harmony Lee, Ja-rang Dongguk University is, the saṃgha’s harmony is truly realized by fulfilling these two elements-mind and body. We might think that this method for maintenance of the saṃgha’s harmony is very self-righteous. But, On the one hand, the saṃgha achieved firm harmony in the level of sammukhībhūta-saṃgha by samānasaṃvāsaka; on the other, they admitted the existence of nānāsaṃvāsaka who could not possibly compromise with them. I think that this stance is very effective for harmony of the whole Buddhist saṃgha.