Tipiṭaka

Pañcakanipāta 251

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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.”

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Pali Canon of Theravāda Buddhism, Mahāsaṅgīti edition.

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