Woman monks: an anomaly or a misnomer?

Woman monks: an anomaly or a misnomer?

The third millennium started with a bang in Thai Buddhist circles when a former philosophy professor was ordained a Buddhist nun in Sri Lanka. The Thai Buddhist hierarchy does not recognize nuns, and has, in fact, forbidden monks to ordain women. Thailand accommodates some 300,000 Buddhist monks – a...

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Main Author: Marja-Leena Heikkila-Horn
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2003
Online Access:http://journalarticle.ukm.my/3128/
http://journalarticle.ukm.my/3128/1/1.pdf

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