Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of map and figures
- Notes on language
- Map 1 Map of Thailand
- 1 Meditation and monasticism: making the ascetic self in Thailand
- 2 Meditation and religious reform
- 3 The monastic community: duty and structure
- 4 Meditation as ethical imperative
- 5 Language and meditation
- 6 Monastic duty, mindfulness and cognitive space
- 7 Money, mae chee and reciprocity
- 8 Hierarchy, gender and mindfulness
- 9 Monasticization and the ascetic interiority of non-self
- Appendix: Ordination transcript for an eight-precept nun (mae chee)
- Bibliography
- Index
Appendix: Ordination transcript for an eight-precept nun (mae chee)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 May 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of map and figures
- Notes on language
- Map 1 Map of Thailand
- 1 Meditation and monasticism: making the ascetic self in Thailand
- 2 Meditation and religious reform
- 3 The monastic community: duty and structure
- 4 Meditation as ethical imperative
- 5 Language and meditation
- 6 Monastic duty, mindfulness and cognitive space
- 7 Money, mae chee and reciprocity
- 8 Hierarchy, gender and mindfulness
- 9 Monasticization and the ascetic interiority of non-self
- Appendix: Ordination transcript for an eight-precept nun (mae chee)
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Arahaṃ sammā-sambuddho bhagavā
The Blessed One is Worthy and Rightly Self-awakened.
Buddhaṃ bhagavantam abhivādemi
I bow down before the Awakened, Blessed One.
[Prostrate one time]
Svākkhato bhagavatā dhammo
The dhamma is well-expounded by the Blessed One.
Dhammaṃ namassāmi
I pay homage to the dhamma
[Prostrate one time]
Supaṭipanno bhagavato sāvaka-saṅgho
The sangha of the Blessed One's disciples has practised well.
Saṅghaṃ namāmi
I pay respect to the sangha.
[Prostrate one time]
Namo tassa bhagavato arahato sammā-sambuddhassa [repeat three times]
Homage to the Blessed One, the Worthy One, the Rightly Self-awakened One.
[Prostrate three times]
Esāhaṃ bhante, sucira-parinibbutaṃ pi taṃ bhagavantaṃ saraṇaṃ gacchāmi, dhammañ ca bhikkhu-sanghañ ca, pabbajjitaṃ maṃ bhante saṅgho dhāretu, ajjatagge pāṇupetaṃ saranaṃ gataṃ
Venerable Sir, I take refuge in the Blessed One – though he long ago attained liberation – together with the dhamma and the bhikkhu sangha. May the sangha henceforth regard me as one gone forth, having attained refuge from this day forward.
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- Meditation in Modern BuddhismRenunciation and Change in Thai Monastic Life, pp. 195 - 197Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010