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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Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia,
2003-07.
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