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 1 1|         need slight adaptation in order to be accepted within the
 2 1|          to the United States. In order to understand the current
 3 2|            He established both an order of bhikkhus (monks) and
 4 2|           bhikkhus (monks) and an order of bhikkhunis (nuns). The
 5 2|          step-mother to ordain an order of nuns. He warns her to
 6 2|         but was invented later in order to justify changes to the
 7 2|          accepting an independent order of nuns. He made the rules
 8 2| limitations were probably made in order to increase societal acceptance
 9 2|          the thousand to join the order of bhikkhunis. Women joined
10 2|          women joined because the order would provide them with
11 2|           independence within the order of bhikkhunis than anywhere
12 2|         Buddhism did not join the order of bhikkhunis. Quite a number
13 2|       many monks' entrance to the order. Often, husbands abandoned
14 2|       their wives and children in order to become monks. As the
15 2|           So what happened to the order of bhikkhunis in the centuries
16 2|           the Buddha's death? The order flourished for several centuries.
17 2|          an exaggeration, but the order was clearly thriving.7 ~
18 2|    converting many. He started an order of bhikkhus there. Queen
19 2| bhikkhunis, and started the nuns' order in Sri Lanka. This happened
20 3|          China and established an order of nuns there. As the centuries
21 3|       India, although we know the order survived there in some form
22 3|        tenth century. By then the order was not very numerous. The
23 3|           to come and restore the order of bhikkhus, but there were
24 3|        has been no fully ordained order of Theravada bhikkhunis. ~
25 3|         by most Sri Lankans. This order of modern bhikkhunis does