This is the book where ordination candidates start. (in Sri Lanka)

Discussion of ordination, the Vinaya and monastic life. How and where to ordain? Bhikkhuni ordination etc.
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This is the book where ordination candidates start. (in Sri Lanka)

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I have been told by a Sri Lankan forest monk that he and most of the forest tradition's teachers recommend this book for the people who waiting for ordination at the monasteries.

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Eko Care wrote: Thu Apr 08, 2021 10:10 pm I have been told by a Sri Lankan forest monk that he and most of the forest tradition's teachers recommend this book for the people who waiting for ordination at the monasteries.

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Wow. Thank you. I am looking forward to studying this book.

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It seems to be a Vinaya text. Rules, especially for monks. There are a few people here thinking of becoming monks, so that works. I'm just not one of them.
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Inedible wrote: There are a few people here thinking of becoming monks, so that works.
It begins with explaining the benefits of ordaining in an elegant way.
Inedible wrote: It seems to be a Vinaya text. Rules, especially for monks.
Not bhikkhu Vinaya but novice monks' training included.
Mainly it is a compendium of important Dhamma points for an ordination candidate in an attractive way.
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https://classicaltheravada.org/t/enteri ... navatarana

This is the book which almost all monks (specially forest monks) in Sri Lanka have read before their ordination.

It was written by Rerukane Chandavimala Mahathera, the Ledi Sayadaw of Sri Lanka.

There is no any Abhidhamma expert to be found in the island who has not been regularly using his Abhidhamma books.

Up to the present day, he is the most appreciated Dhamma-book author in Sri Lanka.
To reap the real benefits of pabbajja in the Buddha sāsana
one must ordain both mind and body.
Pabbajja is unpleasant for one who has a lay mind
but ordained in body only.

-Ven. Rerukane Chandawimala
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