- ཐོས་པས་སྒྲོགས་པ།
- thos pas sgrogs pa
- śrutena śrāvayanti
- Term
- communicated through the headings
- ཐོས་པས་སྒྲོགས་པ།
- thos pas sgrogs pa
- śrutena śrāvayanti
The expression “communicated through the headings”—more literally “announced/proclaimed by the hearing”—refers to simply reciting the names of the five types of offense without reciting the specific offenses that comprise those categories. Dharmamitra explains that once the reciter has begun to recite the specific offenses that comprise that type of offense, that section must be recited in full in order to qualify as a proper and complete Prātimokṣa recitation (Toh 4120, vol. yu, F.109.b).