Dignity and Discipline Reviving Full Ordination for Buddhist Nuns

includes index and biblioraphy

Female ordination in Buddhism : Looking into a Crystal Ball, Making a Future ...................1 The Vinaya Between History and Modernity: Some General Reflections ................23 Sects and Sectarianism .............29 Some remarks on the status of nins and Laywomen in early buddhism ...........39 Women`s Renunciation in Earl Buddhism : The four Assemblies and the foundation of the order of nuns ...........65 The revival of Bhikkhuni ordination in the theravada Tradition ......99 The Eight Garudhammas ...........143 A need to take a fresh look at popular interpretation of the tripitaka ......149 A lamp of vinaya statement ...........161 A tibetan Precedent for Multi-Tradition Ordination ..183 A flawless ordination : Some narratives of Nun`s Ordinations in the Mulasarvastivada vinaya ........195 Buddhist women`s in the Sangha .....207 Preserving endagered ordination traditions in the Sakya school ................211 Presuppositions for a Valid Ordination with Respect to the Restoration of the Bhiksuni ordination in the mulasarvastivada tradition .......218 Creating nuns out of thin Air :Problems and possible solutions concerning the ordination of Nuns according to the tibetan Monastic Code ............227 Bhiksuni ordination ........239 Human Rights and the Status of Women in Buddhism his holiness the fourteenth dalai lama ..................253 Gender equity and human Rights ...........281