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One step beyond.(The Venerable Dhammananda Bhikkhuni, Thailand's first female monk in the Theravada Buddhist tradition)(Biography)
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The Venerable Dhammananda Bhikkhuni, among those recommended by the Association 1,000 women for the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize, serves as Thailand's first female monk in the Theravada Buddhist tradition.
Dhammananda Bhikkhuni remembers the moment she decided to become a monk and give up what she calls her "life of high heels and painted nails." Her head shaved and her body clad in traditional saffron robes, she explains how she walked away from a 27-year career as professor ...
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From our reader.(Letter to the editor)
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; I wish to commend you on your education in the Dhamma, your efforts to spread the Dhamma, and your determination to re-establish the Bhikkhuni sangha. I am an American Samanera studying at a Buddhist Temple with two very erudite, long-standing Bhikkhus that are quite conservative. I am 21 years
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Buddhist retreat for women opens
Oakland Tribune
; FREMONT--In a nondescript two-story house in a residential neighborhood between the Niles Historic District and Old Canyon, two women with shaven heads wearing rust and saffron robes sit on mats and meditate. To a visitor, the trains rumbling by, dogs barking and the loud bass thumping from a
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What is a position of a bhikkhuni being raped?
Yasodhara-Newsletter on International Buddhist Women's Activities
; When the bhikkhuni sangha joined the Order, the bhikkhu sangha was already in existence. The major four parajikas for the bhikkhus were already in practice and the bhikkhuni sangha have taken over the first four parajika rules from the bhikkhu sangha. The first one being: Ya pana bhikkhuni chandaso
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Monastic retreat home opens for Buddhist women
Oakland Tribune
; FREMONT -- In a nondescript two-story house in a residential neighborhood between the Niles Historic District and Old Canyon, two women with shaved heads wearing rust and saffron robes sit on mats and meditate. To a visitor, the trains rumbling by, dogs barking, and loud bass thumping from a
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Buddhist retreat home opens doors for women Fremont site, nation's first, resurrects female clergy tradition
Oakland Tribune
; FREMONT -- In a nondescript two-story house in a residential neighborhood between the Niles Historic District and Old Canyon, two women with shaved heads wearing rust and saffron robes sit on mats and meditate. To a visitor, the trains rumbling by, dogs barking and loud bass thumping from a
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Many fully ordained Buddhist monastic women in Bay Area
Oakland Tribune
; MY GREAT appreciation for all of the efforts that have gone into preparing your beautiful Sunday (May 7) feature article: "A Monk's Woman. However, we are not the only fully ordained Buddhist monastic women in town, nor the only Buddhist women's monastery. There are many different traditions and
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My mother.... the Bhikkhuni.
Yasodhara-Newsletter on International Buddhist Women's Activities
; When I was 11 years old, my mother received her ordination. She said her duty as a mother did not end with her renouncing the world, instead she took me in and I grew up very much like a temple girl. Chanting and meditation was very much part of my early lifestyle, not that I liked it so much then.
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The great theris.
Yasodhara-Newsletter on International Buddhist Women's Activities
; The Theris, or First Nuns, have long been a mystery to Buddhist women. They stand like a lovely mountain range covered in mist, not visible but their presence is felt. As Buddhism has met the modern world, more and more women are practicing. So also are women taking great responsibility as the
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City-born monk is ordained by the Dalai Lama; BUDDHIST: Homecoming celebration planned.(News)
Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)
; Byline: By Cara Simpson A COVENTRY-born Buddhist monk has been fully ordained by the Dalai Lama in India after training in a Tibetan monastery. Gelong Lobsang Dawa, born Edmund Brown, endured harsh winter weather with deep snow which made travel through the Himalayan mountains very difficult. He
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News on Bhikshuni Lineage in Tibetan tradition.(Department of Religion and Culture's conference)
Yasodhara-Newsletter on International Buddhist Women's Activities
; The 3rd Seminar of Vinaya Scholars about the Bhikshuni Lineage, organized by the Department of Religion and Culture (DRC), was held in Dharamsala, India, May 22-24, 2006. H. H. the Dalai Lama gave the opening talk, and many high Tibetan officials were present: the Kalon Tripa (Prime Minister of the
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