In this paper, I build on scholarship in Buddhist ethnomusicology (Douglas 2020; Greene et al. 2002) to examine the pedagogical processes at work in an ordination ceremony and training program for novice Buddhist nuns (samaneri) in central Thailand. Following Cupchik (2015), I approach the ordination ritual as performing art, attending to how it engages the senses and shapes monastics’ aesthetic standards. Using Mross’s (2022) description of ritual as “multisensorial,” I show how insights from dance, music, and performance studies (Wong 2001; Hahn 2007) provide useful tools in understanding the mechanisms of monastic training, which is also an education of the integrated body-mind system. Based on participant observation as a lay volunteer and temporary novice, as well as semi-structured interviews with nuns and laypeople, I demonstrate how the ordination ritual and training link mind, body, and community in a process I term “attunement of the senses.” I employ autoethnography and feminist sensory ethnography (Guzman and Hong 2022) to relay the embodied and sonic components of the ordination, showing how training the senses is integral to training the mind, which is considered the sixth sense in a Buddhist framework. In so doing, I contribute to a more wholistic understanding of the sensorium and lived practices of Buddhist traditions, which have historically been represented as the silent contemplation of a solitary (male) monk (Sykes 2018). Finally, this “attunement of the senses” gains additional significance within the broader Thai national context in which Buddhist nuns are not automatically heard and seen as religious authorities.