Receive the precepts - Jukai

Japanese: 受戒 - じゅかい

In order to join a Buddhist religious organization, one must receive the precepts that must be observed. There are various theories about the procedure, but those who wish to join must first choose a priest to be their leader and then receive the full precepts. In the ceremony for the full precepts, ten monks gather at the ordination platform, where the candidate salutes each of them, receives a robe and a bowl, and is instructed on how to use them. The person who will become a priest is then reconfirmed, and in a place unknown to the candidate, a teacher is selected, centered around the konmasi, who is the central figure in the ritual etiquette. The teacher visits the candidate and asks whether there are any obstacles (shanan) to religious life based on more than twenty points, such as whether he or she is male and whether he or she has parental permission, and reports the results. If there are no obstacles, the candidate returns to the original place and expresses his or her desire to be given the full precepts. The karma master tells the monks present that the applicant wishes to receive the precepts, and again formally asks the monks whether they have any obstacles, then asks the monks present three times whether the applicant and the monk are eligible (karma), and concludes by stating that the full precepts will be given if there are no objections. The karma master's proposal to receive the precepts (byakushikonma) and his three inquiries about eligibility (karma) are called byakushikonma (byakushikonma) (the above roughly follows the Ten Recitation Vinaya). The above is the procedure for becoming a monk (bhikkhu, bhikkuni), but in China and Japan, the ceremony in which the precepts are given to believers as a group is called a jukaie (precept giving ceremony).

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Japanese:

仏教の教団に加入するために，遵守すべき戒めを受けること。その作法は諸説があるが，入団を希望する者はまず自分の指導者となる和尚を決めたのち具足戒を受ける。具足戒の儀式では，その式場である戒壇に 10人の僧侶が集り，受戒希望者はそのいちいちに敬礼し，衣と鉢とを受け，その使用法を教えられる。そして和尚となるべき人が再確認され，希望者にはわからない場所で，儀式の作法の中心となる羯磨師 (こんまし) を中心に教授師を決める。教授師は希望者のもとに行き，男性であるかどうか，親の許可を得ているかどうか，など二十あまりの点について教団生活の障害 (遮難) があるか否かをただし，結果を報告する。障害がなければ希望者はもとの場に来て，具足戒を授けてほしい旨の希望を述べる。羯磨師はこの入団希望者が受戒を希望している旨を席上の僧たちに告げ，再び僧たちの前で形式的に遮難の有無を質問し，そののち入団希望者およびその和尚が適格か否かを3度列席の僧にたずね (羯磨) ，反対がなければ，具足戒が与えられた旨を述べて結論とする。羯磨師による受戒希望の提案 (白) と適格か否かを3度はかる (羯磨) ことを白四羯磨 (びゃくしこんま) という (以上十誦律にほぼ従う) 。以上が出家修行者 (比丘，比丘尼) となるための作法であるが，中国や日本で信徒たちに団体で戒を授ける儀式を授戒会 (じゅかいえ) と称する。

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