{"id":"an10.34","title":"Ordination","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"an10.34","title":"Ordination","units":[{"id":"an10.34:0","sourceIds":["an10.34:0.1","an10.34:0.2","an10.34:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Aṅguttara Nikāya 10.34\n4. Upālivagga\nUpasampadāsutta","en":"Numbered Discourses 10.34\n4. With Upāli\nOrdination"}},{"id":"an10.34:1","sourceIds":["an10.34:1.1","an10.34:1.2","an10.34:1.3","an10.34:1.4","an10.34:1.5","an10.34:1.6","an10.34:1.7","an10.34:1.8","an10.34:1.9","an10.34:1.10","an10.34:1.11","an10.34:1.12","an10.34:1.13","an10.34:1.14","an10.34:1.15"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Katihi nu kho, bhante, dhammehi samannāgatena bhikkhunā upasampādetabban”ti?\n“Dasahi kho, upāli, dhammehi samannāgatena bhikkhunā upasampādetabbaṁ.\nKatamehi dasahi?\nIdhupāli, bhikkhu sīlavā hoti, pātimokkhasaṁvarasaṁvuto viharati ācāragocarasampanno aṇumattesu vajjesu bhayadassāvī, samādāya sikkhati sikkhāpadesu;\nbahussuto hoti sutadharo sutasannicayo, ye te dhammā ādikalyāṇā majjhekalyāṇā pariyosānakalyāṇā sātthaṁ sabyañjanaṁ kevalaparipuṇṇaṁ parisuddhaṁ brahmacariyaṁ abhivadanti, tathārūpāssa dhammā bahussutā honti dhātā vacasā paricitā manasānupekkhitā diṭṭhiyā suppaṭividdhā;\npātimokkhaṁ kho panassa vitthārena svāgataṁ hoti suvibhattaṁ suppavattaṁ suvinicchitaṁ suttaso anubyañjanaso;\npaṭibalo hoti gilānaṁ upaṭṭhātuṁ vā upaṭṭhāpetuṁ vā;\npaṭibalo hoti anabhiratiṁ vūpakāsetuṁ vā vūpakāsāpetuṁ vā;\npaṭibalo hoti uppannaṁ kukkuccaṁ dhammato vinodetuṁ;\npaṭibalo hoti uppannaṁ diṭṭhigataṁ dhammato vivecetuṁ;\npaṭibalo hoti adhisīle samādapetuṁ;\npaṭibalo hoti adhicitte samādapetuṁ;\npaṭibalo hoti adhipaññāya samādapetuṁ.\nImehi kho, upāli, dasahi dhammehi samannāgatena bhikkhunā upasampādetabban”ti.\nCatutthaṁ.","en":"“Sir, how many qualities should a mendicant have to give ordination?”\n“Upāli, a mendicant should have ten qualities to give ordination.\nWhat ten?\nIt’s when a mendicant is ethical, restrained in the monastic code, conducting themselves well and resorting for alms in suitable places. Seeing danger in the slightest fault, they keep the rules they’ve undertaken.\nThey’re very learned, remembering and keeping what they’ve learned. These teachings are good in the beginning, good in the middle, and good in the end, meaningful and well-phrased, describing a spiritual practice that’s entirely full and pure. They are very learned in such teachings, remembering them, rehearsing them, mentally scrutinizing them, and penetrating them theoretically.\nBoth monastic codes have been passed down to them in detail, well analyzed, well mastered, well evaluated in both the rules and accompanying material.\nThey’re able to care for the sick or get someone else to do so.\nThey’re able to settle dissatisfaction or get someone else to do so.\nThey’re able to dispel remorse when it has come up.\nThey’re able to rationally dissuade someone from misconceptions that come up.\nThey’re able to encourage someone in the higher ethics,\nthe higher mind,\nand the higher wisdom.\nA mendicant should possess these ten qualities to give ordination.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/an10.34/en/sujato","licence":"CC0 1.0","licenceUrl":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/","editionNote":"Full supplied source file; inherited abbreviations are preserved. Not a reconstructed expansion of every repetition. No Malay or Mandarin translation is implied."}