Women as Teachers and Disciples in Early Buddhist Communities: The Evidence of Epigraphy
Inscriptions from ancient India reveal to us two related phenomena about early Buddhist nuns: firstly, that nuns were teachers of other women, and secondly that nuns considered themselves to be (or were recorded to be) direct disciples of male monastic teachers. The first of these is confirmed by th...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Equinox
2015
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Religions of South Asia
Year: 2015, Volume: 9, Issue: 1, Pages: 28-42 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
India
/ Epigraphy
/ Early Buddhism
/ Monk
/ Nun
/ Teacher
/ Pupil
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AH Religious education BL Buddhism |
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Women
B Epigraphy B Inscriptions B early Indian Buddhism |
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