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return to the world ". To test the qualifications of every candidate for receiving the ordination, Gautama therefore inaugurated eleven questions 1 : — Are you afflicted with the following diseases : leprosy, boils, dry leprosy, consumption, or fits...

The Journal of the Ceylon Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great ... - Page 139
1887
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Editor's preface. An introductory sketch of Buddhism. An outline of Buddhism ...

Daniel John Gogerly - Buddha (The concept) - 1908 - 240 pages

...respecting the thirteen disqualifications for ordination, and the inquiry shall be in this manner : Have you any of these diseases : leprosy, ulcers,...epilepsy? Are you a human being ? Are you a male? A freeman? Out of debt ? Are you in the king's service (a soldier, etc.)? Have you the permission of...

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