Dignity & Discipline: Reviving Full Ordination for Buddhist Nuns

By Jampa Tsedroen and Thea Mohr

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0861715888
• ISBN13: 9780861715886
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: Wisdom Publications
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"