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Dignity and Discipline: The Evolving Role of Women in Buddhism - Softcover

Mohr, Thea; Tsedroen, Jampa

 
9780861715886: Dignity and Discipline: The Evolving Role of Women in Buddhism
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0861715888 ISBN 13: 9780861715886
Publisher: Wisdom Publications,U.S., 2010

Synopsis

When the Buddha established his community over twenty-five centuries ago, he did so upon a foundation of radical equality among women and men. And indeed, the earliest Buddhist scriptures celebrate the teachings and inspiring influence of these path-blazing female renunciants. Nonetheless, through much of the Buddhist world, the order of nuns has disappeared or was never transmitted at all.

Dignity & Discipline represents a watershed moment in Buddhist history, as the Dalai Lama together with scholars and monastics from around the world, present powerful cases, grounded in both scripture and a profound appeal to human dignity, that the order of Buddhist nuns can and should be fully restored.

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About the Authors

Thea Mohr is author and director of numerous documentaries dealing with religious subjects, primarily Buddhism. Since 1994 she has been a lecturer for religious studies at Goethe University in Frankfurt.

Bhikshuni Jampa Tsedroen (Carola Roloff) is an ordained Tibetan Buddhist nun and a lecturer and research fellow at Hamburg University specializing in nuns' ordination and women in Buddhism.

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Publisher
Wisdom Publications,U.S.
Publication date
2010
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0861715888
ISBN 13 
9780861715886
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
350