The Book of the Discipline (Vinaya-Pitaka), Volume 5, Cullavagga

I. B. Horner's translation of The Book of the Discipline, Volume 5, the Cullavagga, published by the Pali Text Society in 1952, is the standard scholarly English translation of this portion of the Vinaya-Pitaka, the Buddhist monastic legal code governing conduct within the sangha. Horner was a leading Pali scholar and long served as the Pali Text Society's president, and the Society's translations remain the reference standard in Buddhist studies for canonical Pali material. Its strength is direct philological translation of a primary canonical legal text by a specialist working from the Pali original, published by the institution most associated with rigorous Pali textual scholarship. Its limit is that it is a translation of one recension, the Theravada Pali canon's version, of monastic discipline, so a claim about Buddhist monastic law generally should note that other Buddhist traditions preserve their own, sometimes differing, vinaya recensions.