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At 6: 15 p.m. on August 29, 2010, at a secluded mountaintop hermitage overlooking the Pacific Ocean in Sonoma County, California, four women, all long-time dedicated practitioners, were declared fully ordained as bhikkhunis, Buddhist nuns, in the Thai Theravada tradition.
Sylvia Boorstein: Ordination of Bhikkhunis in the Theravada Tradition 2010
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The nuns ordained Sunday join the now small group of recognized bhikkhunis in the Thai Forest tradition that can now continue to grow.
Sylvia Boorstein: Ordination of Bhikkhunis in the Theravada Tradition Sylvia Boorstein 2010
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At 6: 15 p.m. on August 29, 2010, at a secluded mountaintop hermitage overlooking the Pacific Ocean in Sonoma County, California, four women, all long-time dedicated practitioners, were declared fully ordained as bhikkhunis, Buddhist nuns, in the Thai Theravada tradition.
Sylvia Boorstein: Ordination of Bhikkhunis in the Theravada Tradition 2010
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The nuns ordained Sunday join the now small group of recognized bhikkhunis in the Thai Forest tradition that can now continue to grow.
Sylvia Boorstein: Ordination of Bhikkhunis in the Theravada Tradition 2010
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At 6: 15 p.m. on August 29, 2010, at a secluded mountaintop hermitage overlooking the Pacific Ocean in Sonoma County, California, four women, all long-time dedicated practitioners, were declared fully ordained as bhikkhunis, Buddhist nuns, in the Thai Theravada tradition.
Sylvia Boorstein: Ordination of Bhikkhunis in the Theravada Tradition Sylvia Boorstein 2010
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The nuns ordained Sunday join the now small group of recognized bhikkhunis in the Thai Forest tradition that can now continue to grow.
Sylvia Boorstein: Ordination of Bhikkhunis in the Theravada Tradition 2010
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Up until then, women in Sri Lanka were only allowed to become dasasil matas, “ten-precept practitioners,” but not bhikkhunis.
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Up until then, women in Sri Lanka were only allowed to become dasasil matas, “ten-precept practitioners,” but not bhikkhunis.
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The main criterion for making the choice should be the spiritual welfare of the newly ordained bhikkhunis, not legal technicalities.
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The first Buddhist bhikkhunis were originally Jain ascetics and much of the Jain terminology came into the bhikkhuni vow texts.
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