Dignity and Discipline
Reviving Full Ordination for Buddhist Nuns
May 2010
Trade Paperback · 352 Pages
$18.95 U.S. · €13.99 E.U.
ISBN 9780861715886
Wisdom Publications
Trade Paperback · 352 Pages
$18.95 U.S. · €13.99 E.U.
ISBN 9780861715886
Wisdom Publications
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Description
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 and 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.
Dignity and 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.