出三藏記集 11.51

11.51

七月十五日。各於所止處受歲如法。遣三人詣所依僧。承受界分齊耳。其餘如僧法（此與尼戒違將是不知也）比丘尼當三受戒五百戒。比丘尼滿十二歲。乃中為師。初受十戒時。索二女師。當使持律沙門授戒。乃付女師。令教道之。次受二百五十戒。年滿二十。直使女三師授之耳。威儀俯仰。如男子受戒法無異也（彌離尼受六法無三師沙彌亦無三師二師而已耳六法云二百五十謬傳之也）受戒後周一年無誤失。乃得受戒。五百戒後受戒時。三師十僧。如中受時。直使前持律師更授二百五十事。合前為五百耳。直授之不。如中受時問。威儀委曲也。戒文如男子戒耳。事事如之。無他異也（授戒立三尼師一持律比丘僧授戒場四住屋下此言十僧後授不委曲與授文反未詳所出也）。

On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, each performs the pravāraṇā according to rule in their own dwelling, sending three persons to the monks upon whom they depend, merely to acknowledge the boundary limits; the rest follows the procedure for monks. (This conflicts with the bhikṣuṇī Vinaya; it was probably out of ignorance.) A bhikṣuṇī should receive the precepts thrice, making five hundred precepts. Only after a bhikṣuṇī has completed twelve rains is she fit to become a master. When first receiving the ten precepts, two female masters are sought, and a Vinaya-holding śramaṇa must be made to confer the precepts, and then she is entrusted to the female masters, who are ordered to instruct and guide her. Next, she receives the two hundred and fifty precepts; having completed twenty years of age, she simply has three female masters confer them. The deportment, bowing and rising, is no different from the ritual for a man receiving the precepts. (When a śikṣamāṇā receives the six dharmas, there are not three masters; a śrāmaṇera likewise has no three masters, but only two masters; saying that the six dharmas are two hundred and fifty is an erroneous transmission.) When one full year has passed after receiving the precepts without error or violation, she may then receive the [remaining] precepts. When the five hundred precepts are later received, there are three masters and ten monks, just as when received halfway through; the former Vinaya master simply confers another two hundred and fifty items, adding them to the former to make five hundred. They are simply conferred without interrogating the deportment in full detail as when received halfway through. The text of the precepts is like the men's precepts; in every matter it is identical, with no other difference. (In conferring the precepts, three nun masters and one Vinaya-holding bhikṣu are established; the platform for conferring precepts is beneath a four-column pavilion. That this says ten monks, and that the subsequent conferring does not examine details, conflicts with the ordination text, and its source is not yet clear.)