Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Quarterly

What’s All the Fuss about Women’s Ordination?

ne reason why so many contemporary Buddhist traditions lack bhikshuni orders is that the Vinaya has more stringent requirements for the ordination of women than of men. While a bhikshu ordination requires the presence of ten fully ordained monks who have an uninterrupted lineage back to the

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