To inherit and carry forward the Buddhist tradition and wisdom as well as adhere to instructions left by Buddha and brighten Buddha’ s precepts and dharma,junior monks with Sramanera Precepts were conferred on Bhikkhu Precepts in the Three Ordination Platforms of Shaolin Temple from April 15 to 23, 2023. All junior monks with Sramanera Precepts witnessed by the Three Precept Masters and Seven Witnesses mounted the platform delightedly to accept the pure body of Bhikkhu Precepts from April 19 to 23.

The outdoor scene of the Shaolin Ordination Platform (the Sutra-Keeping Pavilion)

The Shaolin Ordination Platform

Junior monks with Sramanera Precepts Asking for Bhikkhu Precepts

Teaching to vow disciplinary conditions

Inviting the Karma-Acharya and Teaching-Acharya and the Upadhaya to give an enlightenment

Newly-precepted monastics repenting 

Offering the vegetarian feast to invite the Three Precept Masters and Seven Witnesses

Paying a worship and inviting the Three Precept Masters and Seven Witnesses to mount the ordination platform to preach precepts

Asking monastics for their difficulties of accepting precepts

Buddhists disseminating dharma and precepts

Newly-precepted monks making obeisance to Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, Arahats, Pratyeka-Buddhas

Junior monks with Bhikkhu Precepts conferred by the second platform is an important way for them to march toward the road to deliverance. The second ordination platform of the junior monks with Bhikkhu Precepts was finished perfectly and then they would pursue the third ordination platform of Bodhisattva Precepts to attain complete precepts soon. (Pictures from Shaolin Temple and Ten Vows)