On this occasion the Buddha expounded to these arahants the simple and essential message of his teaching, called the ‘Ov\u0101dapatimokha’:<\/em> To do what is skilful and good, to refrain from doing that which is evil and unskilful, and to purify the mind.<\/p>\n As shared by Ayya Taathaloka during the ceremony, the full moon of March is also the day on which the female arahant, Mah\u0101paj\u0101pati, attained parinibb<\/em>\u0101na<\/em>. The significance of all of this was not lost on the candidates who went forth inspired and uplifted by the ancient tradition and the venerable sangha into which they were re-entering.<\/p>\n As some of our supporters know, Jitindriy\u0101 was a Therav\u0101din Buddhist nun for 17 years, having ordained with Ajahn Sumedho at Am\u0101ravati in the UK in 1988. She left the monastic life in 2004 but continued to teach meditation and Dhamma on invitation, and also trained and practised as a Buddhist psychotherapist for many years, having returned to Australia (her country of birth) to live in 2008.<\/p>\n Marg was one of the first anagarik\u0101s at Dhammas\u0101ra nun\u2019s monastery in Western Australia in 2002, having ordained with Ajahn Vay\u0101ma during the early years when Ayya Nirodha was a young samaneri there! She later moved to Amar\u0101vati and Cittaviveka monasteries in the UK and trained for another year.<\/p>\n During this s\u0101ma\u1e47er\u012b ordination at Santi, Ayya Nirodha Bhikkhuni gracefully acted as Preceptor and Acarini for Marg and Jitindriya. We were also fortunate to have Ayya Taathaloka Bhikkhuni with us for the occasion, who made a great effort to be present having just flown in from Sri Lanka in the early hours that morning. Her support, efforts and blessings in being here on the day were very much appreciated. We also had a small group of lay supporters who were able to be present and offered much appreciated support.<\/p>\n Jitindriy\u0101 will keep her original ordination name, Jitindriy\u0101<\/em>, meaning: \u2018One who has mastered the senses\u2019. <\/em>Marg now has the Pali name Jayas\u0101ra<\/em>, meaning: \u2018Excellent Victory\u2019. <\/em>Both new s<\/u>\u0101ma\u1e47er\u012bs are very grateful for the opportunity to go forth at Santi Monastery, to practice again as samanas<\/em> (robed renunciates), and to help support the Bhikkhuni community establishing here.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Marg and Ebby at Dhammasara in 2003<\/p><\/div>\n Marg (now Jayasara) and Ebby at Santi, 2018<\/p><\/div>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On March 1st, the full moon day of M\u0101gha P\u016bj\u0101 in the Buddhist calendar, the s\u0101ma\u1e47er\u012b ordination (Pabbajja) of Jitindriy\u0101 and Marg took place at Santi. This particular date was chosen for its great auspiciousness. M\u0101gha P\u016bj\u0101 day marks an event occurring at the Ve\u1e37uvana grove, near R\u0101jagaha in northern India, ten months after the Read the full article…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5310,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/santifm.org\/santi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/santifm.org\/santi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/santifm.org\/santi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/santifm.org\/santi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/santifm.org\/santi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5303"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/santifm.org\/santi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5727,"href":"https:\/\/santifm.org\/santi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5303\/revisions\/5727"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/santifm.org\/santi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/santifm.org\/santi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/santifm.org\/santi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/santifm.org\/santi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/santifm.org\/santi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Photo-1.jpg\")
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