[Buddha-l] Footwear

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>   "One should not enter a village while wearing leather footwear. Whoever should 
> enter: an offense of wrong doing ... I allow that an ill bhikkhu enter a village 
> while wearing leather footwear." — Mv.V.12
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>  Does this mean it is O.K. to wear leather footwear except when entering a village? Does this have to do more with the appearance of a monk/sangha rather than some prohibition  against wearing leather footwear? Is non-leather footwear mentioned at all?

Stuart
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