- A bhikkhunī (Pali: 𑀪𑀺𑀓𑁆𑀔𑀼𑀦𑀻) or
bhikṣuṇī (Sanskrit: भिक्षुणी) is a
Buddhist nun,
fully ordained female in
Buddhist monasticism. Bhikkhunīs live...
- 2008. Park, Pori (2017). "Uplifting
Spiritual Cultivation for Lay People:
Bhikṣuṇī Master Daehaeng (1927–2012) of the
Hanmaum Seonwon (One Mind Sŏn Center)...
- 27, 2022.
Bhiksuni Thubten Choedron, "Brief
History of
Bhiksunis",
Committee for the
Bhiksuni Ordination in the
Tibetan Buddhist Tradition, 2017. Venerable...
- 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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
phonetically imported Sanskrit words in
Chinese include samgha (Chinese: seng),
bhiksuni (ni),
kasaya (jiasha), namo or
namas (namo), and
nirvana (niepan). The...
- help of her
teacher Geshe Thubten,
Roloff translated the
sojong vows for
bhiksunis into English,
thereby greatly aiding Western Tibetan nuns in the ritual...
-
several bhikṣunīs tried to
defend him.
Another time,
shortly after the p****ing away of the Buddha, Mahākāśyapa gave a
teaching to
bhikṣunīs in the presence...
-
Chinese Buddhism, and
their Prātimokṣa (monastic
rules for bhikṣus and
bhikṣuṇīs) are
still in
effect in East
Asian countries to this day,
including China...
