AN 5.253 — Who Should Have a Novice as Attendant

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Numbered Discourses 5.253
26. Ordination
Who Should Have a Novice as Attendant
“Mendicants, a novice should attend on 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. A novice should attend on a mendicant with these five qualities.”