noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru', intransitive verb
handing down the precepts; conferring the precepts
Buddhist term for the ceremony or act of transmitting the monastic precepts from a teacher to a disciple.
師僧が弟子に授戒を行った。
The master conferred the precepts upon the disciple.
From 授 (confer, bestow) and 戒 (precept, commandment), a standard Buddhist term.