It is Wajo who gives the precepts; after he does his self-ordination toward Binzuru-sonja in Jiki-do Hall, he reads Hassai-kai, eight precepts (murder, steal, contact with women and so on), which should be observed to all the Rengyoshu one by one, and asks "Do you observe them well or not?" |
戒を授けるのは和上で、和上は食堂の賓頭盧尊者(びんずるそんじゃ)に向かって自誓自戒した後、練行衆全員に守るべき八斎戒(殺生、盗み、女性に接することなど)を一条ずつ読み聞かせて「よく保つや否や」と問いかける。 |