Fully Ordained Nuns in Fourteenth-to-Seventeenth Tibetan Hagiographical Narratives

Many contemporary efforts have been put to (re-)establish the order of fully ordained nuns in Tibetan Buddhism. Those who are in favor of such practice often refer to premodern Tibetan hagiographies to claim the existence of indigenous fully ordained nuns in the past. A series of female practitioner...

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Main Author: Wu, Fan (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: MDPI 2022
In: Religions
Year: 2022, Volume: 13, Issue: 11
Further subjects:B full female ordination
B Tibetan hagiographies
B Tibetan women
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