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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,