[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Tibetan canon (Kangyur & Tengyur)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.tibet) › [Kangyur (translated words of the Buddha)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.tibet.kangyur) › [General sūtras](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.tibet.kangyur.mdo_sde) › [འཕགས་པ་འཁར་གསིལ་གྱི་མདོ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.tibet.kangyur.mdo_sde.335) › [The Sutra on the Ringing Staff](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.tibet.kangyur.mdo_sde.335~en-84000) › notes.2 # འཕགས་པ་འཁར་གསལ་གྱ་མད notes.2 The Sūtra on the Ringing Staff notes.2 - **Language:** English ### [notes.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.tibet.kangyur.mdo_sde.335~en-84000.notes.2) 2. Most references to the ringing staff tend to associate the staff with a monk. However, the bhikṣuṇī section of the Mūlasarvāstivāda Vinayavibhaṅga contains passages that refer to circumstances where fully ordained Buddhist nuns carry the ringing staff. See three passages in Chinese translation in Taishō XXIII 1443 933b16–17, 975b7–10, and 981b6. A relevant passage in the corresponding Tibetan translation, dge slong ma’i ’dul ba rnam par ’byed pa (Toh 5), is found in Degé Kangyur (’dul ba, ta), 215.a. On this Vinaya source, see Prebish (1994), pp. 96–97. There are also contemporary reports that receiving a ringing staff occurs during the bodhisattva vow ceremony that serves as a component of monastic ordination ceremonies, including those of fully ordained nuns, in China and Taiwan. - [Previous: notes.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.tibet.kangyur.mdo_sde.335~en-84000.notes.1) - [Next: notes.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.tibet.kangyur.mdo_sde.335~en-84000.notes.3) - [Up: notes](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.tibet.kangyur.mdo_sde.335~en-84000.notes) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.tibet.kangyur.mdo_sde.335~en-84000.notes.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.tibet.kangyur.mdo_sde.335~en-84000.notes.2) · Pramāṇa