The “1st International Congress on Buddhist Women’s Role in the Sangha: Bhikshuni Vinaya and Ordination Lineages” was held at the University of Hamburg from July 18-20, 2007, in cooperation with the University’s Asia-Africa Institute.
A large part of the proceedings of the International Congress on Buddhist Women's Role in the Sangha has been published by Wisdom Publications in May 2010. For Details see www.wisdompubs.org.
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German translation of Dignity and Discipline (Deutsche Übersetzung von Dignity and Discipline): "Mit Würde und Beharrlichkeit", published 2011 by edition steinrich.
Details see www.edition-steinrich.de.
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Papers presented during the Congress, but not included in "Dignity and Discipline" as well as other essays realted to the congress topic you can download for free here .
The University of Toronto/McMaster University Yehan Numata Buddhist Studies Program is pleased to announce an international conference on the lives of ordained Buddhist nuns in India from the time of the Buddha until the eventual disappearance of the bhikṣuṇī saṅgha from Indian soil. Date: April 16-17, 2011, University of Toronto.
buddhiststudies.chass.utoronto.ca/buddhist-nuns-in-india
This website still enjoys about 700 visitors per month. We therefore decided to keep this website as information on the congress uploaded. Researchers, speakers and participants thus have the possibility to keep informed and share information. Suggestions for improvement are most welcome. Please understand that we can only upload information we receive. Please contact: JampaTsedroen@gmx.de
The Committee for Bhikshuni Ordination (CBO) is a committee established at the advice of His Holiness the Dalai Lama in 2005, whose goal is to make full ordination available to nuns in all Buddhist traditions, especially the Tibetan tradition. Although this goal has the strong support of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, heads of various Tibetan traditions, and leading Buddhist masters, the issue is still sufficiently controversial and misunderstood within the Tibetan monastic community and the general Tibetan public that the goal has not yet been accomplished. It is widely recognized that further efforts at education to build consensus are needed.
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Some photos of the congress.
Live-Recordings of the congress on CD and DVD can be ordered via this PDF form.
The “1st International Congress on Buddhist Women’s Role in the Sangha: Bhikshuni Vinaya and Ordination Lineages” was held at the University of Hamburg from July 18-20, 2007, in cooperation with the University’s Asia-Africa Institute.
A large part of the proceedings of the International Congress on Buddhist Women's Role in the Sangha has been published by Wisdom Publications in May 2010. For Details see www.wisdompubs.org.
Preview this book: books.google.com
Papers presented during the Congress, but not included in "Dignity and Discipline" as well as other essays realted to the congress topic you can download for free here .
This website still enjoys about 700 visitors per month. We therefore decided to keep this website as information on the congress uploaded. Researchers, speakers and participants thus have the possibility to keep informed and share information. Suggestions for improvement are most welcome. Please understand that we can only upload information we receive. Please contact: JampaTsedroen@gmx.de
The CWB is currently undertaking efforts to develop communication materials to act upon the 7/18/2009 recommendation to the CWB by Mr. Gonpo Puntsok of the Department of Religion and Culture in Dharamsala that if the CWB committee could lobby the community of bhikshu masters using reliable vinaya sources and in harmony with vinaya teachings and Buddha Dharma, to bring about a consensus on accepting a method to make bhikshuni ordination available in the Tibetan tradition, it would bring great satisfaction for every party connected to it.
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Some photos of the congress.
Live-Recordings of the congress on CD and DVD can be ordered via this PDF form.
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