Numbered Discourses 5.251

1. Ordination

Who Should Give Ordination

“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.”