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Dignity and Discipline

Reviving Full Ordination for Buddist Nuns

By: Thea Mohr (Editor), Jampa Tsedroen (Editor)

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Paperback | 11 May 2010

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When the Buddha established his community over twenty-five centuries ago, he did so upon a foundation of radical equality among women and men.

And indeed, the earliest Buddhist scriptures celebrate the teachings and inspiring influence of these path-blazing female renunciants. Nonetheless, through much of the Buddhist world, the order of nuns has disappeared or was never transmitted at all.

Dignity and Discipline represents a watershed moment in Buddhist history, as the Dalai Lama together with scholars and monastics from around the world, present powerful cases, grounded in both scripture and a profound appeal to human dignity, that the order of Buddhist nuns can and should be fully restored.

About the Editors

Thea Mohr is author and director of numerous documentaries dealing with religious subjects, primarily Buddhism. Since 1994 she has been a lecturer for religious studies at Goethe University in Frankfurt.

Bhikshuni Jampa Tsedroen (Carola Roloff) is an ordained Tibetan Buddhist nun and a lecturer and research fellow at Hamburg University specializing in nuns' ordination and women in Buddhism.

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"The controversy surrounding full female ordination is one of the most pressing issues facing modern Buddhism. Dignity and Discipline is without a doubt the most valuable book on the subject to date, and should be required reading for anyone interested in contemporary Buddhism."--Buddhadharma: The Buddhist Review

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Preface	p. ix
Abbreviations	p. xiii
Female Ordination in Buddhism: Looking into a Crystal Ball, Making a Future	p. 1
The Vinaya Between History and Modernity: Some General Reflections	p. 23
Sects and Sectarianism The Origin of the Three Existing Vinaya Lineages: Therav&abar;da, Dharmaguptaka, and M&ubar;lasarv&abar;stiv&abar;da	p. 29
Some Remarks on the Status of Nuns and Laywomen in Early Buddhism	p. 39
Women's Renunciation in Early Buddhism: The Four Assemblies and the Foundation of the Order of Nuns	p. 65
The Revival of Bhikkhun&ibar; Ordination in the Therav&abar;da Tradition	p. 99
The Eight Garudhammas	p. 143
A Need to Take a Fresh Look at Popular Interpretations of the Tripi&tbdot;aka: Therav&abar;da Context in Thailand	p. 149
A Lamp of Vinaya Statements: A Concise Summary of Bhik&sbdot;u&nbdot;&ibar; Ordination	p. 161
A Tibetan Precedent for Multi-Tradition Ordination	p. 183
A "Flawless" Ordination: Some Narratives of Nuns' Ordinations in the M&ubar;lasarv&abar;stiv&abar;da Vinaya	p. 195
Buddhist Women's Role in the Sa&ndot;gha	p. 207
Preserving Endangered Ordination Traditions in the Sakya School	p. 211
Presuppositions for a Valid Ordination with Respect to the Restoration of the Bhik&sbdot;u&nbdot;i Ordination in the M&ubar;lasarv&abar;stiv&abar;da Tradition	p. 217
Creating Nuns Out of Thin Air: Problems and Possible Solutions concerning the Ordination of Nuns according to the Tibetan Monastic Code	p. 227
Bhik&sbdot;u&nsbdot;i Ordination: Lineages and Procedures as Instruments of Power	p. 239
Human Rights and the Status of Women in Buddhism His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama	p. 253
Gender Equity and Human Rights	p. 281
Appendix	p. 291
Glossary	p. 305
Bibliography	p. 309
About the Contributors	p. 325
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