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 1 2|         both an order of bhikkhus (monks) and an order of bhikkhunis (
 2 2|       decidedly subordinate to the monks. He also warns that his
 3 2|  Therigatha was probably edited by monks, it still allows us a glimpse
 4 2| Anguttara-Nikaya (vi, 5, III, 56), monks are warned: ~  ~"Monks,
 5 2|             monks are warned: ~  ~"Monks, a woman, even when going
 6 2|        ensnare the heart of a man. Monks, if ever one would rightly
 7 2|     circumstances surrounding many monks' entrance to the order.
 8 2|        children in order to become monks. As the women were left
 9 2|     positive effect of helping the monks resist the temptation to
10 2|            It placed the blame for monks' feelings of lust on the
11 2|            women instead of on the monks. These misogynistic ideas
12 2|             Mahinda and some other monks travelled from India to
13 3|         monasteries and killed the monks and nuns. When the Colas
14 3|           They managed to get some monks from Burma to come and restore
15 3|            abase themselves before monks regularly. Western monastic
16 3|            monastic women must let monks eat first, must sit in the
17 3|           must bow down before all monks, no matter what their level