Buddhist Nuns: The Birth and Development of a Women's Monastic Order by Mohan Wijayaratna

Buddhist Nuns: The Birth and Development of a Women's Monastic Order

Mohan Wijayaratna

250 pages • first pub 1991 (editions)

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The Community of Buddhist Nuns is one of the oldest women’s organizations in human history. In this book Dr. Wijayaratna explains how this community was started by the Buddha in the 5th century BCE, and how it developed gradually. To show the moti...

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