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**hLabXZlK** · 08-13-2011, 08:46 AM

IIRC, in the Vinaya, monks are restricted on the number of lower-ranked monks they can lead by a) their ability to effectively instruct and b) by seniority, which is measured not in terms of skill, but by length of time in the community. I'd have to look it up again to be more precise, tho. There was also something about their ability to provide robes and other requisites.

Right, but that doesn't put him on the level that LE is claiming:

He was consulted as a respected authority, a senior member of the community

It's not like we see this guy all over the Suttas like Ananda, Sariputta, etc.

08-13-2011, 08:46 AM	#32
hLabXZlK Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 545 Senior Member	IIRC, in the Vinaya, monks are restricted on the number of lower-ranked monks they can lead by a) their ability to effectively instruct and b) by seniority, which is measured not in terms of skill, but by length of time in the community. I'd have to look it up again to be more precise, tho. There was also something about their ability to provide robes and other requisites. Right, but that doesn't put him on the level that LE is claiming: He was consulted as a respected authority, a senior member of the community It's not like we see this guy all over the Suttas like Ananda, Sariputta, etc.
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