{"collection":"Anguttara Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_an10.34/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_an10.34","id":"suttacentral_an10.34","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/an10.34/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Anguttara Nikaya","Early Buddhist Texts"],"text":"\u201cSir, how many qualities should a mendicant have to give ordination?\u201d \u201cUp\u0101li, a mendicant should have ten qualities to give ordination. What ten? It\u2019s 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\u2019ve undertaken. They\u2019re very learned, remembering and keeping what they\u2019ve 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\u2019s entirely full and pure. They are very learned in such teachings, remembering them, rehearsing them, mentally scrutinizing them, and penetrating them theoretically. Both monastic codes have been passed down to them in detail, well analyzed, well mastered, well evaluated in both the rules and accompanying material. They\u2019re able to care for the sick or get someone else to do so. They\u2019re able to settle dissatisfaction or get someone else to do so. They\u2019re able to dispel remorse when it has come up. They\u2019re able to rationally dissuade someone from misconceptions that come up. They\u2019re able to encourage someone in the higher ethics, the higher mind, and the higher wisdom. A mendicant should possess these ten qualities to give ordination.\u201d","title":"Ordination","tradition":"Anguttara Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":208}