Dignity and Discipline
Reviving Full Ordination for Buddhist Nuns
Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Church, Clergy, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Gender Studies, Women&, Philosophy
| Author: | ISBN: | 9780861718306 | |
| Publisher: | Wisdom Publications | Publication: | May 1, 2014 |
| Imprint: | Wisdom Publications | Language: | English |
| Author: | |
| ISBN: | 9780861718306 |
| Publisher: | Wisdom Publications |
| Publication: | May 1, 2014 |
| Imprint: | Wisdom Publications |
| Language: | English |
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.
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.
