Ordination
Ordination is a procedure marking a person’s entry into the Template:Wiki. In Buddhism ordination has two steps.
The first is called pabbajjā, ‘going forth’ i.e. going forth from the household life into that of a Template:Wiki Template:Wiki.
The second is called upasampadā, ‘Template:Wiki,’ i.e. Template:Wiki all the duties and responsibilities of a fully ordained monk or nun.
Buddhist Template:Wiki have no sacerdotal role or power and thus their ordination is just the Template:Wiki and publicly-announced decision to Template:Wiki the world,
to live by the Vinaya and to strive with dedication to attain enlightenment.
To be ordained, a candidate must Template:Wiki himself before an assembly of ten Template:Wiki monks of good standing, give his name,
the name of the monk who has offered to train him and then satisfactorily answer 12 questions.
(1) Do you have Template:Wiki?
(2) Do you have boils?
(3) Do you have ringworm?
(4) Do you have tuberculosis?
(5) Do you have Template:Wiki?
(6) Are you a human being?
(7) Are you Template:Wiki? – or Template:Wiki in the case of one wishing to be a nun
(8) Are you free from debt?
(9) Are you free from obligations to the king?
(10) Do you have your parent’s (and husband’s in the case of females) permission?
(11) Are you 20 years old?
(12) Do you have your robe and bowl? (Vin.I,93; II,271).
If the assembly is satisfied that the candidate is suitable, he will be accepted as a monk.
Women wishing to be nuns must first undergo this procedure before an assembly of monks and again before an assembly of nuns.
New monks or nuns will spend at least the next five years in ‘Template:Wiki’ (nissaya) on their teacher who will train them and introduce them to the norms of the monastic life.
In Template:Wiki and Template:Wiki there is a tradition of temporary ordination.
Most Template:Wiki will spend a few weeks or months as a monk, usually in their teens.
As this Template:LTSWtemporary ordination is done with the full intention of returning to the household life within a short time,
and as no Template:Wiki renunciation of anything takes place, it is actually more a Template:Wiki ritual than a genuine ordination.
According to the Vinaya, if a monk wishes to become a lay man again he only has to inform his fellow monks of his decision, formally disrobe before them and leave the monastery.
In practice, in all Buddhist countries, monks who Template:Wiki (other than those temporarily ordained) are looked upon with considerable disapproval.