- Hong Kong has
retained the practice,
where female monastics are full
bhikṣuṇīs. In 13th
century ****an,
Mugai Nyodai became the
first female Zen master...
- 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...
-
Chinese Buddhism, and
their Prātimokṣa (monastic
rules for bhikṣus and
bhikṣuṇīs) are
still in
effect in East
Asian countries to this day,
including China...
- 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...
-
phonetically imported Sanskrit words in
Chinese include samgha (Chinese: seng),
bhiksuni (ni),
kasaya (jiasha), namo or
namas (namo), and
nirvana (niepan). The...
-
governing the
behaviour of
Buddhist monastics (monks or bhikṣus and nuns or
bhikṣuṇīs).
Prati means "towards" and mokṣa
means "liberation" from
cyclic existence...
-
Centre for
Buddhist Studies (5): 9–41. ——— (2013b). "The
Gurudharmaon Bhikṣuṇī Ordination in the Mūlasarvāstivāda Tradition".
Journal of
Buddhist Ethics...
-
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...
- 2008. Park, Pori (2017). "Uplifting
Spiritual Cultivation for Lay People:
Bhikṣuṇī Master Daehaeng (1927–2012) of the
Hanmaum Seonwon (One Mind Sŏn Center)...
