- A bhikkhunī (Pali: 𑀪𑀺𑀓𑁆𑀔𑀼𑀦𑀻, Sanskrit: भिक्षुणी, romanized:
bhikṣuṇī) is a
Buddhist nun,
fully ordained female in
Buddhist monasticism. Bhikkhunīs...
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Cheng Yen or Shih
Cheng Yen (Chinese: 證嚴法師, 釋證嚴; pinyin: Zhèngyán Fǎshī; Wade–Giles: Chêng4 Yen2 Fa3-shih1; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Chèng-giâm Hoat-su; born Chin-Yun...
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Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo (born 1943) is a
bhikṣuṇī in the
Drukpa lineage of the
Kagyu school of
Tibetan Buddhism. She is an author,
teacher and
founder of...
- 2008. Park, Pori (2017). "Uplifting
Spiritual Cultivation for Lay People:
Bhikṣuṇī Master Daehaeng (1927–2012) of the
Hanmaum Seonwon (One Mind Sŏn Center)...
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ROLOFF (
BHIKṢUṆĪ JAMPA TSEDROEN). "Women
Receive Full
Ordination in
Bhutan For
First Time in
Modern History", Lion's Roar, JUNE 27, 2022.
Bhiksuni Thubten...
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Dorje briefly contextualizes his mother, a
bhikṣuṇī whose sadhana was Yoga tantra, and her parents. The
bhiksuni daughter has a
dream in
which a man holds...
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Buddhist tradition of
bhikṣuṇī (nuns)
officially commenced in
Bhutan on 23 June 2022, when 144
women were ordained. Previously,
bhiksuni ordinations were only...
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American in the
Vajrayana tradition to
become a
fully ordained nun or
bhikṣuṇī.
Trungpa appointed Chödrön
director of the
Boulder Shambhala Center (Boulder...
- as
bhikṣuṇīs (who take the full set of
monastic vows in the Vinaya). When
Buddhism traveled from
India to Tibet,
apparently the
quorum of
bhikṣuṇīs required...
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Another one is the
giving up of lay life and
becoming a
monastic (bhiksu or
bhiksuni).
Practicing celibacy (whether for life as a monk, or temporarily) is also...
