Dignity and Discipline: Reviving Full Ordination for Buddhist Nuns

by Thea Mohr (Editor), Jampa Tsedroen (Editor)

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.

Genres: Buddhism

352 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2009

Reviews

[Marsha Altman · Rating 5 out of 5]

Import collection of essays about reviving bhikksuni ordination for nuns, mostly Tibetan nuns. Dense and technical but important.