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Ordination: Sakyadhita’s heritage from the Buddha
Introduction It was Maha Pajapati Gotami, the Buddha’s step mother and aunt who received this heritage directly from the Buddha. She was praised by the Buddha for being Rattannu (long standing) to...
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The Bhikshuni Order in Theravada Sri Lanka
Question: Can you brief us on its history? Venerable Omalpe Sobhita Thero (VOST): In the 3rd century AD, the Bhikshuni order was established in Sri Lanka with the arrival of Bhikshuni Sanghamitta from...
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The revival of bhikkhunī ordination in the Theravāda tradition
Officially sanctioned bhikkhunī ordination disappeared from the Theravāda Buddhist tradition centuries ago. The last evidence for the existence of the original Bhikkhunī Sangha in a country following...
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Ordination of nuns by monks
Here is the passage in the bhikkhunikkhandhaka that allows ordination of bhikkhunis by bhikkhus:1 Atha kho mahāpajāpatī gotamī yena bhagavā tenupasaṅkami. Upasaṅkamitvā bhagavantaṁabhivādetvā...
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Bhikkhunīs in Theravāda
During 2006 and 2007 I was in communication with the Committee of Western Bhikkhunīs discussing various matters concerning bhikkhunī ordination. Venerable Jampa Tsoedron asked if I...
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The legality of bhikkhunī ordination
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Spiritual liberation
Chithust, UK. A beautiful Cambridge-trained nurse, Laura Bridgman was going through the most unhappy time of her life. There was something missing; something that wanted desperately to be fulfilled....
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The controversy on bhikkhunī ordination
Introduction Click here to download a PDF. In the Theravāda tradition the lineage of bhikkhunīs died out some thousand years ago. Present-day attempts to revive this lineage meet with opposition. In...
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