老い
vinaya
趣旨一致
律蔵 比丘尼犍度 段落7
This principle too is to be honored and respected all one’s life, and is not to be breached. Ānanda, if Mahāpajāpati accepts these eight important principles, that will be her full ordination.” After learning these eight important principles from the Buddha, Ānanda went to Mahāpajāpati and said, “If you accept eight important principles, Gotami, that will be your full ordination.” And he told her the principles. She replied, “Just as a young woman or man—someone fond of adornments, who has just washed their hair—would receive a garland of lotuses, jasmine, or sandan flowers with both hands and place it on their head, so too, do I receive these eight important principles, not to be breached for life.” Ānanda then went to the Buddha, bowed, sat down, “Sir, Mahāpajāpati has accepted the eight important principles. Your aunt is now ordained.” “Ānanda, if women had not been allowed to go forth on this spiritual path proclaimed by the Buddha, the spiritual life would have lasted a long time—the true Teaching would have lasted a thousand years.
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