The first video in this playlist looks at the rules regulating the non-touching and non-acceptance of money. Sometimes on almsround the lay people have nothing else to offer, but still it is not allowed at any time to accept money, or to have it accepted for the monk.
The second video looks at the rules regarding the eating of food, which are again as strict as those governing the collection of food on almsround. There is very strict protocol about how the food is taken, and what is acceptable and not acceptable practice in these matters.
In the Mahāyāna tradition in China, there are still many monks very strictly abiding to the Vinaya tradition, who engage in all the ascetic practices (dhutanga), and live a very austere life.
This is the fourth and fifth in a series of films about the Vinaya-trained monks from the Miao Xiang Sangha, based in Liaoning in north-eastern China (bordering North Korea), who are living such a life, and records their various practices.
These rules differ somewhat from those in the better-known Theravāda traditions, but the monks abiding to these rules are equally bound to living a strict and austere life and are equally sincere in their practices.
It is also to be noted that along with reflections on the meaning of the dhutanga practices themselves, there are also reflections on Dharma and why we practice and what goals we are trying to achieve.
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