I’m visiting a small monastery in Florida for the month of November. Today I ordained my first 10 precept Sayalay (nun) named Dhammarati. “The delight of Dhamma”
The ordination is done slightly differently than a novice monk. Perhaps this is to not confuse with the procedure of a sāmaṇerī .
We don’t have them chant:
Sakala vatta dukkha nissaraṇa nibbānassa sacchikāraṇatthāya, imaṃ kāsāvaṃ gahetvā pabbājetha maṃ bhante anukampaṃ upādāya.
(Venerable Sir, please accept this robe and out of your compassion ordain me as a novice order that I may realize Nibbāna, the liberation from the entire cycle of
suffering.)
However, she asked me if I would do something like this, so I said we can do it in English just before giving me the robes. Then I gave her the robes back.
The other things that is different, is that each precept still has a full determination at the end.
veramaṇī sikkhāpadaṃ samādiyāmi
Where each sāmaṇera precept only has
veramaṇī
At the end, all precepts are determined together.
