The Parma Rabjung ordination bestows pre-novice vows and is taken for life in order to prepare the monastics for novice (getsul/getsulma) and eventually full (gelong/gelongma) ordination.
Life monastics make up the core of Gampo Abbey and provide the container that benefits residents who come to the Abbey for temporary training and ordination. So it is always very joyful for the Abbey when residents decide to take the step into lifelong monasticism, as it marks the entrance into their own path of lifelong transformation and it contributes to the furtherance of the monastic tradition at Gampo Abbey and in the West.
Our resident elder, Ani Migme Chodron, served as preceptor and our life monastic community witnessed.
New life monastics Ziji Shonnu and Tsering Sangmo flank preceptor, Ani Migme Chodron
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