Code of Conduct for Buddhist Nuns (Bhikkhuni Vinaya)
Author | : Kolonnawe Kusuma (Bhikkhuni) |
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Total Pages | : 341 |
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Author | : Kolonnawe Kusuma (Bhikkhuni) |
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Total Pages | : 341 |
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Author | : Ann Heirman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Buddhist monasticism and religious orders for women |
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Complete annotated English translation of Chinese version of the Bhikṣuṇīvibhaṅga.
Author | : Ann Heirman |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015 |
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Author | : Charles Wei-Fu |
Publisher | : Praeger |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 1994-09-29 |
Genre | : Religion |
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Within the scope of the English-language literature on Buddhism, the codes of behavior mandated by Buddhist doctrine represent an infrequently discussed topic. The selections here consist of essays on Buddhism by 17 scholars and practitioners, who address the ongoing evolution of Buddhist doctrine as reflected in its cultural, temporal, political, and geographical accommodations from the earliest days, to the present, and into the future. Past precedent is used as a means of clarifying the precise role of the precepts in the modern world as Buddhists face the 21st century and continue to encounter diverse cultural contexts. Scholars, practitioners, and students alike will find instructive the theoretical as well as practical issues that are covered, including textual criticism, hermeneutics, cross-cultural studies, theories of action, psychology, death and dying, feminism, business management, challenges to the Western scientific paradigm, and religion in popular culture. Three main questions are explored from diverse perspectives: What was and is the significance of the precepts; how can they best be applied, and creatively adapted, to changing social conditions to best fulfill the original intentions of the Buddha; and how are we to determine present upayic demands to avoid violating those intentions? As many argue in these pages, there is much more at stake in the issue of sila/vinaya than simple guidelines for an obsolete lifestyle to be discarded at will. Rather, the case can be made that they represent an intrinsic part of Buddhist cultivation, even a sine qua non of successful, consummate practice.
Author | : Karma Lekshe Tsomo |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 1996-11-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1438422385 |
This study is an investigation of the moral precepts and codes of everyday conduct by which ordained women regulated their lives. It takes as its basis the Bhikṣuṇī Prātimokṣa Sūtras of the Dharmagupta school, preserved in Chinese translation, and the Mūlasarvāstivāda school, preserved in Tibetan translation. For over two thousand years, Buddhist nuns have quietly embodied specific moral and spiritual values on their path to enlightenment. Contemplative communities offered women both an alternative lifestyle and an avenue for education. Numbering as many as one million at certain periods of history, they have exerted powerful, if often unacknowledged, influence on Asian societies. Sisters in Solitude documents the earliest recorded system of ethics formulated especially for women and presents the first English translations of the original texts. An essential sourcebook for studies on women's religious history and feminist ethics, it details the monastic guidelines that link Buddhist nuns of the different traditions. The texts it contains unite women of many cultures.
Author | : David J. Kalupahana |
Publisher | : Motilal Banarsidass Publishe |
Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9788120832800 |
Throughout the centuries, moral philosophers, both Eastern and Western, considered a permanent and eternal law a necessary requirement for the formulation of a moral principle. If such a law was not empirically given, it had to be determined through reason. In contrast, early Buddhism presented a radical theory of impermanence. Interpreters of early Buddhism have been unable to abandon the presupposition of permanence, however, and hence have persisted in viewing nirvana or freedom as a permanent and eternal state to be contrasted with the impermanent world of sensory experience and bondage. Ethics in Early Buddhism is David J. Kalupahana's balanced and brilliantly concise attempt to place the early Buddhist descriptions of the world of experience, the state of freedom, and the moral principle leading to such freedom within the framework of impermanence.
Author | : Nirmala S. Salgado |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2013-09-17 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0199986231 |
Based on extensive research in Sri Lanka and interviews with Theravada and Tibetan nuns from around the world, Salgado's groundbreaking study urges a rethinking of female renunciation. How are scholarly accounts complicit in reinscribing imperialist stories about the subjectivity of Buddhist women? How do key Buddhist "concepts" such as dukkha, samsara, and sila ground female renunciant practice? Salgado's provocative analysis questions the secular notion of the higher ordination of nuns as a political movement for freedom against patriarchal norms. Arguing that the lives of nuns defy translation into a politics of global sisterhood equal before law, she calls for more-nuanced readings of nuns' everyday renunciant practices.
Author | : Karma Lekshe Tsomo |
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Total Pages | : 187 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Buddhist monasticism and religious orders for women |
ISBN | : 9788170305415 |
Documents The Earliest Recorded System Of Ethics Formulated Especially For Women - Presents The First English Translations Of Thr Original Texts - Details The Monastic Guidelines That Links Buddhist Nuns Of The Different Traditions. 5 Chapters - Notes - Glossary - Bibliography - Index.
Author | : Thea Mohr |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2014-05-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0861718305 |
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 & 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.
Author | : Alice Collett |
Publisher | : Windhorse Publications |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2021-06-15 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1911407724 |
Is there gender equality in Buddhist traditions? What do Buddhist texts say about women? This book tells the stories of many inspiring Buddhist women who overcame attempted constraint to gain liberation and become esteemed teachers. An ideal introduction to gender studies in Buddhism and the history of women in the tradition.