Great Precepts Transmission Ceremony 2021
“Go To The Other Shore” is the name (or theme) chosen for the Great Precepts Transmission Ceremony (Đại Giới Đàn in Vietnamese) that as taken place at Deer Park Monastery and broadcasted live. At Plum Village, France we have followed the lead and transmitted the Bhikkhu and Bhikkhunī Precepts, during a ceremony where novice brothers and sisters become fully ordained monastics in the Plum Village Tradition. On first day we have witnessed the Invitation of the Pratimoksha (monastic code) and the transmission of the Bhikkhu Precepts to 14 novice brothers. The second day was reserved for the transmission of the Bhikkhunī Precepts to 13 novice sisters. This was the first time in the history of the Plum Village Community that the Great Precepts Transmission was done simultaneously over three Continents.
The Revised Pratimoksa for Bhikkhus. 
The Revised Pratimoksa for Bhikkhunīs 
Beginning of the procession 
Friends enjoying the procession. 
Arriving to Still Water Meditation Hall. 
Arriving to Still Water Meditation Hall. 
Touching the Earth Practice. 
Honoring our ancestors. 
I listen, I listen, this wonderful sound. 
Chanting the Heart Sutra. 
Chanting the Heart Sutra 
Offering the Incense. 
Inviting the novices to enter. 
Leading the novices to the center. 
Offering the Incense of our Hearts. 
Touching the Earth. 
Reverence is the Nature of our Monastic Vow. 
Receiving the Saṅghāti 
How wondrous is the robe of freedom!
It is the field of all good seeds.
Brothers’ Alms Bowls. 
Receiving the Alms Bowl 
Receiving the Alms Bowl 
Hugging Meditation 
Blood & Spiritual Families 
Sisters’ Alms Bowls. 
Honoring our Ancestors. 
Touching of the Earth. 
Sisters Alms Bowls. 
Touching of the Earth. 
Receiving the Saṅghāti 
How wondrous is the robe of freedom!
It is the field of all good seeds.
Sisters Alms Bowls. 
Listening to the Venerable Monastics at the other Plum Village Centers 
Reverence is the Nature of our Monastic Vow 
Joyfully Together 
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