Vinaya Texts

SR No.: 007684
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: T W Rhys Davids, Hermann Oldenberg
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1881
Total Pages: 2523
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 47 MB

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I, 12, 4. ADMISSION TO THE ORDER OF BHIKKHUS. 115
in the evening, in consequence of that, and on this occasion, after having delivered a religious discourse, thus addressed the Bhikkhus: 'When I was alone, O Bhikkhus, and had retired into solitude, the following consideration, &c. What if I were to permit, ....(&c., as in I).
3. 'I grant you, O Bhikkhus, this permission : Confer henceforth in the different regions and in the different countries the pabbağ gâ and upasampada ordinations yourselves (on those who desire to receive them). And you ought, О Bhikkhus, to confer the pabbaggâ and upasampadâ ordinations in this way: Let him (who desires to receive the ordination), first have his hair and beard cut off; let him put on yellow robes, adjust his upper robe so as to cover one shoulder, salute the feet of the Bhikkhus (with his head), and sit down squatting; then let him raise his joined hands and tell him to say:
4. " I take my refuge in the Buddha, I take my refuge in the Dhamma, I take my refuge in the Samgha. And for the second time I take (&c. .... Samgha). And for the third time I take my refuge in the Buddha, and for the third time I take my refuge in the Dhamma, and for the third time I take my refuge in the Samgha.”
'I prescribe, O Bhikkhus, the pabbaggå and upasam padâ ordinations consisting in the three times repeated declaration of taking refuge in the holy triad).' End of the account of the upasampadâ ordination
by the threefold declaration of taking refuge.
On this ceremony, which is still gone through before the regular ordination, see the remarks in the note on chapter 1, § 1.
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