Dignity and Discipline
Author | : Thea Mohr |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2014-05-01 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780861718306 |
ISBN-13 | : 0861718305 |
Rating | : 4/5 (06 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: When the Buddha established his community over twenty-five centuries ago, he did so upon a foundation of radical equality among women and men. And indeed, the earliest Buddhist scriptures celebrate the teachings and inspiring influence of these path-blazing female renunciants. Nonetheless, through much of the Buddhist world, the order of nuns has disappeared or was never transmitted at all. Dignity & Discipline represents a watershed moment in Buddhist history, as the Dalai Lama together with scholars and monastics from around the world, present powerful cases, grounded in both scripture and a profound appeal to human dignity, that the order of Buddhist nuns can and should be fully restored.