came back to the monks and asked for the full ordination. The monks told the Buddha. “Monks, when someone who has been a monastic of another religion refutes his preceptor after being legitimately corrected by him and then returns to that religion, but then comes back from that religious community once more, he shouldn’t be given the full ordination. Anyone else who has been a monastic of another religion, and who wants the going forth and the full ordination on this spiritual path, should be given four months of probation. And it should be given like this. First he should shave off his hair and beard and put on the ocher robes. He should then arrange his upper robe over one shoulder, pay respect at the feet of the monks, squat on his heels, and raise his joined palms. He should then be told to say this: ‘I go for refuge to the Buddha, I go for refuge to the Teaching, I go for refuge to the Sangha. For the second time, I go for refuge to the Buddha,