{"id":3678,"date":"2014-02-01T23:31:44","date_gmt":"2014-02-02T03:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/?p=3678"},"modified":"2014-07-06T16:18:23","modified_gmt":"2014-07-06T20:18:23","slug":"affective-dimensions-of-the-sri-lankan-bhikkhuni-revival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/2014\/02\/01\/affective-dimensions-of-the-sri-lankan-bhikkhuni-revival\/","title":{"rendered":"Affective Dimensions of the Sri Lankan Bhikkhun\u012b Revival"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6>ISSN 1076-9005<br \/>\nVolume 21, 2014<\/h6>\n<h3>\u201cWe Love Our Nuns\u201d: Affective Dimensions of the Sri Lankan <em>Bhikkhun\u012b<\/em> Revival<\/h3>\n<p>Susanne Mrozik<br \/>\nMount Holyoke College<\/p>\n<p>In this paper I examine lay responses to the Sri Lankan <em>bhikkhun\u012b<\/em> revival of the late 1990s. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted between 2010 and 2012, I argue that laity have very different concerns than do the scholars, activists, government officials, and monastic authorities engaged in public debate over the scriptural validity of the controversial revival. The primary concern of laity is whether or not they can get their religious needs met at their local <em>bhikkhun\u012b<\/em> temple, not whether or not the <em>bhikkhun\u012b<\/em> revival conforms to Therav\u0101da monastic regulations (<em>Vinaya<\/em>). Taking a rural farming village as a case study, I focus particular attention on the affective ties between laity and nuns, demonstrating that laity in this village express their support for the <em>bhikkhun\u012b<\/em> revival in the language of love (Sinhala: <em>\u0101dayara<\/em>, <em>\u0101dare<\/em>). I analyze what laity mean by the word \u201clove\u201d in the context of lay-nun relationships, and what this can tell us about the larger dynamics of the Sri Lankan <em>bhikkhun\u012b<\/em> revival. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/files\/2014\/02\/Mrozik-Bhikkhuni-final4.pdf\">Read article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISSN 1076-9005 Volume 21, 2014 \u201cWe Love Our Nuns\u201d: Affective Dimensions of the Sri Lankan Bhikkhun\u012b Revival Susanne Mrozik Mount Holyoke College In this paper I examine lay responses to the Sri Lankan bhikkhun\u012b revival of the late 1990s. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted between 2010 and 2012, I argue that laity have very different &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/2014\/02\/01\/affective-dimensions-of-the-sri-lankan-bhikkhuni-revival\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Affective Dimensions of the Sri Lankan Bhikkhun\u012b Revival<\/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":[71956],"tags":[2678,2613,2592,1010],"class_list":["post-3678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-volume-21-2014","tag-monasticism","tag-sri-lanka","tag-theravada","tag-women"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5X8HA-Xk","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3678","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=3678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}