Pañcakanipāta 251

Numbered Discourses 5.251

26. Ordination

Who Should Give Ordination

1 “Mendicants, ordination should be given by a mendicant with five qualities. What five? It’s a mendicant who has the entire spectrum of an adept’s ethics, immersion, wisdom, freedom, and the knowledge and vision of freedom. Ordination should be given by a mendicant with these five qualities.”