AN 5.251 — Who Should Give Ordination

English translation by Bhikkhu Sujato.

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Numbered Discourses 5.251
26. 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.”