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  • In the Mulasarvastivadin vinaya tradition, like the Theravada tradition, we follow the rules of ordination such as taking vows not yet taken, the ways of guarding them without causing degeneration and the ways to restore them if they degenerate.

    Ordination in the Tibetan Buddhist Tradition 2010

  • The ordained monks and nuns study and practice vinaya; they take part in the bi-monthly confession and restoration ceremony, etc.

    Ordination in the Tibetan Buddhist Tradition 2010

  • The ordained monks and nuns study and practice vinaya; they take part in the bi-monthly confession and restoration ceremony, etc.

    Ordination in the Tibetan Buddhist Tradition 2010

  • In 1973 His Holiness the Dalai Lama wrote the "Direct Instruction From Shakyamuni Buddha -- A Gelong's Training in Brief" (1), a vinaya text based on the Interleaved Summaries presenting the fully ordained monk's vows.

    Ordination in the Tibetan Buddhist Tradition 2010

  • The 253 vows of a fully ordained monk -- these are the ones explicitly prescribed for the ordained persons by the Buddha himself in the vinaya scriptures -- in the Mulasarvastivadin school of vinaya are broadly divided into five categories or classes with sets of ten, twenty and so forth as you can see below:

    Ordination in the Tibetan Buddhist Tradition 2010

  • In the Mulasarvastivadin vinaya tradition, like the Theravada tradition, we follow the rules of ordination such as taking vows not yet taken, the ways of guarding them without causing degeneration and the ways to restore them if they degenerate.

    Ordination in the Tibetan Buddhist Tradition 2010

  • Wherever there is a gelong, a holder of the vinaya, that place is luminous; that place is illuminated.

    Ordination in the Tibetan Buddhist Tradition 2010

  • The 253 vows of a fully ordained monk -- these are the ones explicitly prescribed for the ordained persons by the Buddha himself in the vinaya scriptures -- in the Mulasarvastivadin school of vinaya are broadly divided into five categories or classes with sets of ten, twenty and so forth as you can see below:

    Ordination in the Tibetan Buddhist Tradition 2010

  • In 1973 His Holiness the Dalai Lama wrote the "Direct Instruction From Shakyamuni Buddha -- A Gelong's Training in Brief" (1), a vinaya text based on the Interleaved Summaries presenting the fully ordained monk's vows.

    Ordination in the Tibetan Buddhist Tradition 2010

  • Wherever there is a gelong, a holder of the vinaya, that place is luminous; that place is illuminated.

    Ordination in the Tibetan Buddhist Tradition 2010

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  • "Even though Buddhist regulations, or vinaya, prescribed celibacy for monks and nuns, many of these Buddhists at Niya married, had children, and lived with their families, not in celibate monastic communities, as is so often thought."

    --Valerie Hansen, The Silk Road: A New History (Oxford and New York: Oxford UP, 2012), 21

    December 30, 2016