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Karen Andrews
Institute of Buddhist Studies
Berkeley, CA 94709
Women in Theravada Buddhism

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1 1(1)| Janice D. Willis, "Nuns and Benefactresses: The 2 2 | an order of bhikkhunis (nuns). The two orders practiced 3 2 | step-mother to ordain an order of nuns. He warns her to be wary 4 2 | of women who want to be nuns dress as nuns, shave their 5 2 | want to be nuns dress as nuns, shave their heads, and 6 2 | the women are ordained as nuns. However, the Buddha insists 7 2 | eight rules which place the nuns in a position decidedly 8 2 | of the ordination of the nuns. ~Why does the Buddha, who 9 2 | an independent order of nuns. He made the rules about 10 2(6)| quoted in Janice D. Willis, "Nuns and Benefactresses: The 11 2 | bhikkhunis, and started the nuns' order in Sri Lanka. This 12 3 | established an order of nuns there. As the centuries 13 3 | was not very numerous. The nuns were probably largely controlled 14 3 | and killed the monks and nuns. When the Colas were finally 15 3 | surviving orders of Theravada nuns. (Buddhism had pretty much 16 3 | by this time.) Since ten nuns were needed to ordain a 17 3 | These women dress like nuns and accept the ten precepts,


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