women in Buddhism & bhikkhunīs

research

The purpose of this project is to study the role of, as well as the attitude towards, nuns and women in early Buddhist texts (and beyond).

Publications by Bhikkhu Anālayo relevant to this theme:

  • “Aṅguttara-nikāya/Ekottarika-āgama: Outstanding Bhikkhunīs in the Ekottarika-āgama”, in Women in Early Indian Buddhism: Comparative Textual Studies, A. Collett (ed.), Oxford University Press, pp. 97–115.
  • “Attitudes Towards Nuns – A Case Study of the Nandakovāda in the Light of its Parallels” [with an appendix by Giuliana Martini], Journal of Buddhist Ethics, 2010, vol. 17 pp. 332–400.    download
  • “The Bahudhātuka-sutta and its Parallels on Women’s Inabilities”, Journal of Buddhist Ethics, 2009, vol. 16 pp. 137–190.    download   (reprinted in Madhyama-āgama Studies)
  • “Beautiful Eyes Seen with Insight as Bereft of Beauty – Subhā Therī and Her Male Coun­terpart in the Ekottarika-āgama”, The Journal for the Sati Center for Buddhist Studies, vol. 2 (forthcoming).
  • “Chos sbyin gyi mdo, Bhikṣuṇī Dharmadinnā Proves Her Wisdom”, Chung-Hwa Buddhist Journal, 2011, vol. 24 pp. 3-33.   download   (reprinted in Madhyama-āgama Studies)
  • “Defying Māra – Bhikkhunīs in the Saṃyukta-āgama”, in Women in Early Indian Buddhism: Comparative Textual Studies, A. Collett (ed.), Oxford University Press (forthcoming).
  •  “Global Concerns and Local Requirements in the Bhikkhunī Ordination Controversy”, 元智全球在地文化報, 2013, vol. 36 pp. 2–3.   download
  • “The Four Assemblies and Theravāda Buddhism”, The Mahā Bodhi, 2015, 122: 13– 21.    download
  • “The Gurudharma on Bhikṣuṇī Ordination in the Mūlasarvāstivāda Tradition”, (with Bhikṣuṇī Jampa Tsedroen), Journal of Buddhist Ethics 2013, vol. 20: 741–774.    download
  • “Karma and Female Birth”, Journal of Buddhist Ethics, 2014, vol. 21 pp. 107–151.    download
  • “The Legality of Bhikkhunī Ordination”, Journal of Buddhist Ethics, 2013, vol. 20 (Special 20th Anniversary Issue), pp. 309–333.    download
  • The Legality of Bhikkhunī Ordination [reprinted with Sinhala, Thai and Burmese translations], Selangor: Selangor Buddhist Vipassanā Meditation Society, 2013.    download
  • “Mahāpajāpatī’s Going Forth in the Madhyama-āgama”, Journal of Buddhist Ethics, 2011, vol. 18 pp. 268–317.    download   (reprinted in Madhyama-āgama Studies)
  • “Miracle-working Nuns in the Ekottarika-āgama”, Indian International Journal of Buddhist Studies, 2015, vol. 16 pp. 1–27.    download
  •  “On the Bhikkhunī Ordination Controversy”, Sri Lanka International Journal of Buddhist Studies, 2014, vol. 3 pp. 1–20.   download
  • “Outstanding Bhikkhunīs in the Ekottarika-āgama”, in Women in Early Indian Buddhism: Comparative Textual Studies, A. Collett (ed.), Oxford University Press (forthcoming).
  • “Saṃyutta-nikāya/Saṃyukta-āgama: Defying Māra – Bhikkhunīs in the Saṃyukta-āgama”, in Women in Early Indian Buddhism: Comparative Textual Studies, A. Collett (ed.), Oxford University Press, pp. 116–139.
  • “The Revival of the Bhikkhunī Order and the Decline of the Sāsana”, Journal of Buddhist Ethics, 2013, vol. 20, pp. 109–193.    download
  • “Theories on the Foundation of the Nuns’ Order – A Critical Evaluation”, Journal of the Centre for Buddhist Studies, Sri Lanka, 2008, vol. 6 pp. 105–142.    download
  • “Women in Buddhism”, in Encyclopedia of Sciences and Religions, A.L.C. Runehov & L. Oviedo (ed.), Dordrecht: Springer, 2013, pp. 2347–2349.
  • “Women’s Renunciation in Early Buddhism – The Four Assemblies and the Foundation of the Order of Nuns”, in Dignity and Discipline, The Evolving Role of Women in Buddhism, Jampa Tsedroen and Thea Mohr (ed.), Boston: Wisdom, 2010, pp. 65–97.

Publications by Bhikkhunī Dhammadinnā relevant to this theme:

  • “The ʼDul ba parallel to the Nandakovāda”, appendix to Bhikkhu Anālayo, “Attitudes towards nuns: a case study of the Nandakovāda in the light of its parallels”, Journal of Buddhist Ethics 17 (2010): 331–400 [378–394].*    download
  • Dhammadinnā, Bhikkhunī 2015: “The Parinirvāṇa of Mahāprajāpatī Gautamī and Her Followers in the Mūlasarvāstivāda Vinaya”, The Indian Interna­tional Journal of Buddhist Studies, 16: 29–61.    download
  • Dhammadinnā, Bhikkhunī 2016: “The Funeral of Mahāprajāpatī Gautamī and Her Followers in the Mūlasarvāstivāda Vinaya”, The Indian Interna­tional Journal of Buddhist Studies, 17 (in preparation).
  • Dhammadinnā, Bhikkhunī 2016: “The upasampadā of Mahāprajāpatī Gautamī and her followers in the Mūlasarvāstivāda Vinaya” (in preparation).
  • Dhammadinnā, Bhikkhunī 2015: “Predictions of Women to Buddhahood in Middle-period Literature”, Journal of Buddhist Ethics, 22.    download
  • The legal status of the sikkhamānā & the contemporary re-establishment of the Theravāda bhikkhunī lineage (in preparation).
* Published under the name Giuliana Martini

teaching

Asian Buddhist Women

e-learning course
April to July 2016