ISSN 1076-9005 Volume 25, 2018 The Case for Reviving the Bhikkhunī Order by Single Ordination Bhikkhu Anālayo Numata Center for Buddhist Studies, University of Hamburg In this article I examine the legal validity of reviving the Theravāda Order of bhikkhunīs by an act of single ordination, granted by bhikkhus on their own. My presentation responds … Continue reading Reviving the Bhikkhunī Order by Single Ordination
ISSN 1076-9005 Volume 22, 2015 The Cullavagga on Bhikkhunī Ordination Bhikkhu Anālayo University of Hamburg With this paper I examine the narrative that in the Cullavagga of the Theravāda Vinaya forms the background to the different rules on bhikkhunī ordination, alternating between translations of the respective portions from the original Pāli and discussions of their … Continue reading The Cullavagga on Bhikkhunī Ordination
ISSN 1076-9005 Volume 21, 2014 Bhikkhunī Academy at Manelwatta Temple: A Case of Cross-Tradition Exchange Cheng Wei-yi Hsuan Chuang University This article is the result of an investigation continued from an earlier article on an exchange between Buddhists in Taiwan and Sri Lanka (“A Cross-Tradition Exchange Between Taiwan and Sri Lanka,” Journal of Buddhist Ethics, … Continue reading Bhikkhunī Academy: A Case of Cross-Tradition Exchange
ISSN 1076-9005 Volume 21, 2014 “We Love Our Nuns”: Affective Dimensions of the Sri Lankan Bhikkhunī Revival Susanne Mrozik Mount Holyoke College In this paper I examine lay responses to the Sri Lankan bhikkhunī revival of the late 1990s. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted between 2010 and 2012, I argue that laity have very different … Continue reading Affective Dimensions of the Sri Lankan Bhikkhunī Revival
ISSN 1076-9005 Volume 20, 2013 The Legality of Bhikkhunī Ordination Bhikkhu Anālayo Center for Buddhist Studies, University of Hamburg Dharma Drum Buddhist College, Taiwan This paper examines the legal validity of the revival of the Theravāda bhikkhunī ordination that has had the 1998 Bodhgayā ordinations as its starting point. Read article
ISSN 1076-9005 Volume 20, 2013 The Revival of the Bhikkhunī Order and the Decline of the Sāsana Bhikkhu Anālayo Center for Buddhist Studies, University of Hamburg Dharma Drum Buddhist College, Taiwan In this article I study the revival of the bhikkhunī order in the Theravāda traditions and its supposed relation to a decline of the … Continue reading The Revival of the Bhikkhunī Order and the Decline of the Sāsana
ISSN:1076–9005 Volume 6, 1999 Damming the Dhamma: Problems with Bhikkhunīs in the Pali Vinaya Kate Blackstone University of Manitoba Why should one of the contesting voices insist on the decline of saddhamma? How can women’s subordination help preserve the dhamma? This paper poses a possible answer. The Vinaya represents a very formalized statement of both … Continue reading Problems with Bhikkhunīs in the Pāli Vinaya
ISSN 1076-9005 Volume 25, 2018 Social Inequalities and the Promotion of Women in Buddhism in Thailand Manuel Litalien Nipissing University Studies have shown that religion can support or hinder social development (Haynes 2007; Tomalin 2013). This article makes a case in favor of how, in Thailand, the demands for greater justice and gender equality have … Continue reading Social Inequalities and the Promotion of Women in Buddhism in Thailand
ISSN 1076-9005 Volume 22, 2015 Predictions of Women to Buddhahood in Middle-Period Literature Bhikkhunī Dhammadinnā Dharma Drum Institute of Liberal Arts This article studies narratives related to the topic of women receiving a prediction or declaration (vyākaraṇa) for Buddhahood. The texts in question—in their received form—have their place in the Indian Buddhist traditions of the … Continue reading Predictions of Women to Buddhahood in Middle-Period Literature
ISSN 1076-9005 Volume 22, 2015 Becoming Bhikkhunī? Mae Chis and the Global Women’s Ordination Movement Lisa J. Battaglia Samford University Women’s full ordination as Buddhist nuns (Pāli: bhikkhunī, Sanskrit: bhikṣuṇī) has been a contested issue across Buddhist traditions and historical periods. Today, there is a global movement to secure women’s full participation in Buddhist monastic … Continue reading Thailand’s Mae Chis and the Global Women’s Ordination Movement
ISSN 1076-9005 Volume 20, 2013 Bad Nun: Thullanandā in Pāli Canonical and Commentarial Sources Reiko Ohnuma Dartmouth College In Pāli literature, Thullanandā is well known for being a “bad nun”—a nun whose persistent bad behavior is directly responsible for the promulgation of more rules of the Bhikkhunī Pātimokkha than any other individually named nun. Yet … Continue reading Bad Nun
ISSN 1076-9005 Volume 18, 2011 A Cross-Tradition Exchange Between Taiwan and Sri Lanka Wei-Yi Cheng Hsuan Chuang University This paper uses as an example an alms-offering ceremony that took place on October 5, 2010 to illustrate cross-tradition exchanges between Asian Buddhists of different geographic locations. This ceremony had been intended to give alms to all … Continue reading A Cross-Tradition Exchange Between Taiwan and Sri Lanka