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Karen Andrews
Institute of Buddhist Studies
Berkeley, CA 94709
Women in Theravada Buddhism
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1 2| entreated by his step-mother to ordain an order of nuns. He warns
2 2|      Buddha at first refuses to ordain the women, although he admits
3 2|     told them that he could not ordain them. Traditionally, it
4 2|        it takes ten bhikkhus to ordain a bhikkhu, and both ten
5 2|  bhikkhus and ten bhikkhunis to ordain a bhikkhuni. Mahinda sent
6 3|         ten nuns were needed to ordain a new nun, ordination of

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