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 1 2   |          travelled from India to Sri Lanka to convert the inhabitants
 2 2   |       started the nuns' order in Sri Lanka. This happened in approximately
 3 3   |            III~The bhikkhunis in Sri Lanka propagated the faith and
 4 3   |            the eleventh century, Sri Lanka was conquered by the Colas
 5 3   |            women had appeared in Sri Lanka who had renounced the lay
 6 3   | approximately 2500 such women in Sri Lanka. ~These women live very
 7 3   |            DSM and the people of Sri Lanka insist that the DSM are
 8 3   |                The government of Sri Lanka is making some attempt to
 9 3   |          small group of women in Sri Lanka who claim to be real bhikkhunis.
10 3   |              female Buddhists in Sri Lanka are the life of a lay woman,
11 3   |            similar to the DSM in Sri Lanka. The monastic women who
12 3(8)|           the Dasa-Sil Maniyo in Sri Lanka," Dialogue 11 (1984): 67.~