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August 8, 2017January 3, 2020Blog

The ‘Bhikkhuni Issue’ – Resurgence of the the four-fold sangha

The ‘Bhikkhuni Issue’ Resurgence of the four-fold sangha (following a thousand years of discrimination) Aloka Vihara Bhikkhunīs walking in the forest… Some years ago I had the privilege of attending a daylong retreat given by a female renunciate who was struggling (along with others) with the fact that in the Theravāda Buddhist tradition there were no more fully ordained nuns. […]

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