A monk (or nun) and a believer must be initiated into monkhood,its rite is named as Commandment Granting. In DunHuang Manuscripts there are nearly one hundred Manuscripts that keep the records of all the rites.According to the classify of the rites,we can separate them into five sorts,all of them are worthed to be studied.On these basis,the thesis lies on the foundation of the objective position, specialize in the study of the Granting rite,in order that the academia can have a thorough knowledge or understanding of them to make an intensive systematic study.
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