How many monks would be required in order to ordain someone? If one were to meet a wandering but officially ordained, precept-keeping monk, could that one monk ordain another?
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How many monks are required to ordain someone?
by LonesomeYogurt » Sun Jun 17, 2012 12:20 am
Gain and loss, status and disgrace,
censure and praise, pleasure and pain:
these conditions among human beings are inconstant,
impermanent, subject to change.
Knowing this, the wise person, mindful,
ponders these changing conditions.
Desirable things don’t charm the mind,
undesirable ones bring no resistance.
His welcoming and rebelling are scattered,
gone to their end,
do not exist.
- Lokavipatti Sutta
Stuff I write about things.
censure and praise, pleasure and pain:
these conditions among human beings are inconstant,
impermanent, subject to change.
Knowing this, the wise person, mindful,
ponders these changing conditions.
Desirable things don’t charm the mind,
undesirable ones bring no resistance.
His welcoming and rebelling are scattered,
gone to their end,
do not exist.
- Lokavipatti Sutta
Stuff I write about things.
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Re: How many monks are required to ordain someone?
by Cittasanto » Sun Jun 17, 2012 1:33 am
LonesomeYogurt wrote:How many monks would be required in order to ordain someone? If one were to meet a wandering but officially ordained, precept-keeping monk, could that one monk ordain another?
Thanks!
no, for acceptance into the sangha as a bhikkhu they would need ordained at least 10 years, and five bhikkhus are needed, the minimum number for a full sangha act in most cases.
EDIT - maybe wrong about the 10 years and it could be 5 as some of the conditions in the vinaya were lessened, such as dependence and I can not remember if this was one of them
This offering maybe right, or wrong, but it is one, the other, both, or neither!
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Blog - Some Suttas Translated.
"Others will misconstrue reality due to their personal perspectives, doggedly holding onto and not easily discarding them; We shall not misconstrue reality due to our own personal perspectives, nor doggedly holding onto them, but will discard them easily. This effacement shall be done."
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Upāsaka Cittasanto
Blog - Some Suttas Translated.
"Others will misconstrue reality due to their personal perspectives, doggedly holding onto and not easily discarding them; We shall not misconstrue reality due to our own personal perspectives, nor doggedly holding onto them, but will discard them easily. This effacement shall be done."
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