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AN 5.252 Who Should Give Dependence

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AN 5.252 - Who Should Give Dependence
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Numbered Discourses 5.252
26. Ordination
Who Should Give Dependence
“Mendicants, dependence 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. Dependence should be given by a mendicant with these five qualities.”