{"id":2838,"date":"2010-12-22T12:17:28","date_gmt":"2010-12-22T16:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/?p=2838"},"modified":"2010-12-30T19:37:03","modified_gmt":"2010-12-30T23:37:03","slug":"restoring-mulasarvastivada-bhik%e1%b9%a3u%e1%b9%87i-ordination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/2010\/12\/22\/restoring-mulasarvastivada-bhik%e1%b9%a3u%e1%b9%87i-ordination\/","title":{"rendered":"Restoring M\u016blasarv\u0101stiv\u0101da Bhik\u1e63u\u1e47\u012b Ordination"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6>ISSN 1076-9005<br \/>\nVolume 17, 2010<\/h6>\n<h3>The M\u016blasarv\u0101stiv\u0101da <em>Bhik\u1e63u\u1e47\u012b <\/em>Has the Horns of a Rabbit: Why the Master\u2019s Tools Will Never Reconstruct the Master\u2019s House<\/h3>\n<p>Bhik\u1e63u\u1e47\u012b Lozang Trinlae<br \/>\nBuddhist Hong Shi College<\/p>\n<p>At the First International Congress on the Buddhist Women\u2019s Role in the Sa\u1e45gha held at the University of Hamburg in 2007, Venerable Samdhong Rinpoche offered the pronouncement, \u201cOur efforts toward re-establishing the M\u016blasarv\u0101stiv\u0101da <em>bhik\u1e63u\u1e47\u012b <\/em>ordination are not driven by Western influence or feminist concerns about the equality of the sexes\u2014this issue cannot be determined by social or political considerations. The solution must be found within the context of the <em>Vinaya <\/em>codes\u201d (Mohr and Tsedroen 256). Using the perspective and comparative analysis of contemporary moral theory, I argue to the contrary that restoration of M\u016blasarv\u0101stiv\u0101da <em>bhik\u1e63u\u1e47\u012b <\/em>communities by <em>Vinaya <\/em>[discipline rules] alone is most unlikely, if not entirely impossible, without a consideration of gender equality, and, by extension, social considerations and Western influence. Thus, <em>Vinaya <\/em>code compliance may be seen as a necessary but insufficient condition for producing M\u016blasarv\u0101stiv\u0101da (Mula) <em>bhik\u1e63u\u1e47\u012b <\/em>communities. Furthermore, not only the result of <em>bhik\u1e63u\u1e47\u012b <\/em><em>Vinaya <\/em>restoration, but also the cause of it, a desire for its existence, is also very unlikely, if not entirely impossible, in a convention-determined <em>Vinaya <\/em>framework whose stance is self-defined as being mutually exclusive with post-conventional morality. A fundamental change of attitude embracing modern perspectives of women\u2019s rights is itself necessary.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/files\/2010\/12\/Trinlae-Mulasarvastavadin-Bhikshuni1.pdf\">Read article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISSN 1076-9005 Volume 17, 2010 The M\u016blasarv\u0101stiv\u0101da Bhik\u1e63u\u1e47\u012b Has the Horns of a Rabbit: Why the Master\u2019s Tools Will Never Reconstruct the Master\u2019s House Bhik\u1e63u\u1e47\u012b Lozang Trinlae Buddhist Hong Shi College At the First International Congress on the Buddhist Women\u2019s Role in the Sa\u1e45gha held at the University of Hamburg in 2007, Venerable Samdhong Rinpoche &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/2010\/12\/22\/restoring-mulasarvastivada-bhik%e1%b9%a3u%e1%b9%87i-ordination\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Restoring M\u016blasarv\u0101stiv\u0101da Bhik\u1e63u\u1e47\u012b Ordination<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2391],"tags":[2678,2683,1010],"class_list":["post-2838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-volume-17-2010","tag-monasticism","tag-tibetan-buddhism","tag-women"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5X8HA-JM","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}