Directions of Learning, Learning Directions: Myanmar-Burmese Buddhist Nuns, Responsibility, and their Experiences with the Scriptural Examinations

2021 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 151-174
Author(s):  
Rachelle Saruya
Keyword(s):  
Buddhist Nuns

Women under the Bo Tree: Buddhist Nuns in Sri Lanka

1995 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 402
Author(s):  
Ranjini Obeyesekere ◽  
Tessa Bartholomeusz
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Buddhist Nuns

Buddhist ‘nuns’ (mae chi) and the teaching of Pali in contemporary Thailand

2010 ◽  
Vol 44 (6) ◽  
pp. 1373-1408 ◽  
Author(s):  
STEVEN COLLINS ◽  
JUSTIN MCDANIEL
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Social Role ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Buddhist Nuns

AbstractThis paper presents an ethnographic account of Buddhist ‘nuns’ involved in the teaching of Pali language and Abhidhamma in contemporary Thailand. It also reflects on both the emic-Buddhist (Pali and modern vernacular) and etic-interpretative (English-language) vocabularies which have been used to describe these women and their social role(s) and status(es). The aims of the paper are to go beyond the Weberian vocabulary usually used to describe what we will call ‘professionally celibate Buddhist women’, to escape from the ubiquitous emphasis on the issue of re-establising the Nuns’ Order (bhikkhunī-s) in the modern world in scholarship dealing with such women, and to encourage further ethnography and further civilizational interpretation of gender and asceticism.

Ora et Labora: Buddhist Nuns as Road Builders in Zanskar

Roadsides ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 002 ◽  
pp. 61-72
Author(s):  
Marta Normington
Keyword(s):  
Buddhist Nuns
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