Sri Lankan Buddhist Nuns: Complicating the Debate over Ordination
Sri Lanka is home to two orders of Theravāda Buddhist nuns: an order of fully ordained nuns (bhikkhunī), revived in the late 1990s, and an alternative female renunciant order of "ten-precept mothers" (dasasilmātās), established in the early twentieth century in lieu of bhikkhunī ordination...
| Published in: | Journal of feminist studies in religion |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Indiana University Press
[2020]
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| In: |
Journal of feminist studies in religion
Year: 2020, Volume: 36, Issue: 1, Pages: 33-49 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Sri Lanka
/ Buddhism
/ Nun
/ Ordination
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| RelBib Classification: | BL Buddhism KBM Asia |
| Further subjects: | B
Sri Lanka
B dasasilmātā B Sakyadhita B Buddhist Nuns B bhikkhunī |
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Volltext (Verlag) |