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Lives of early Buddhist nuns : biographies as history / Alice Collett ; with a foreword by Jonathan S. Walters and an afterword by Martin Seeger.
LIBRA BQ336 .C65 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Collett, Alice, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Buddhist nuns--India--Biography.
- Buddhist nuns.
- Buddhist women--India--Social life and customs.
- Buddhist women.
- Buddhism--India--History.
- Buddhism.
- Manners and customs.
- India.
- History.
- Pali literature--History and criticism.
- Pali literature.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xxxi, 276 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New Delhi, India : Oxford University Press, 2016.
- Summary:
- Lunakesi pankadhari ekasati pure carim, avajje vajjamatini vajje cavajjadassini. Divavihara nikkhamma gijjhakutamhi pabbate, addasam virajam buddham bhikkhusanghapurakkhatam. Nihacca janum vanditva sammukha panjali aham, ehi bhadde ti avaca sd me as upasampada. Cinna anga ca magadhd vajji kasi ca kosala, anana pannasavassani ratthapindam abhunji 'ham. Punnam ca pasavim bahum sappanno vat' ayam upasako, yo bhaddaya civaram adasi muttaya sabbagandhehi. Hair cut, wearing dirt, with one robe, I wandered previously, thinking there was fault where there was no fault, and that there was no fault where there was fault. Leaving from my daytime dwelling on Mount Gijjhakuta, I saw the stainless Buddha, attended by his community of monks. Having bent my knee, having paid homage, I stood face to face with him, hands in the gesture of respect. 'Come, Bhadda,' he said, that was my ordination. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Part 1 Pali biographies
- Introduction 3
- 1 Dhammadinna 18
- 2 Khema 26
- 3 Kisagotami 39
- 4 Patacara 47
- 5 Bhadda Kundalakesa 57
- 6 Uppalavanna 66
- Part 2 Themes and issues
- 7 Female teachers: Dhammadinna 91
- 8 Female beauty: Khema 111
- 9 Female wanderers: Kisagotaml 136
- 10 Family, marriage, and class: Patacara 161
- 11 Female conversion: Bhadda Kundalakesa 188
- 12 Female characteristics: Uppalavanna 206.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-265) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780199459070
- 019945907X
- OCLC:
- 935915656
- Publisher Number:
- 99967983550
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