Search results for "Bhikkhuni" - New World Encyclopedia

on Mara: the Mara-Samyutta and the Bhikkhuni-Samyutta; the first describing ... is foiled—the pattern continues in the Bhikkhuni-Samyutta, where clever ...

are known by the terms Bhikkhu (male) and Bhikkhuni (female), while in Hinduism ... (Sanskrit) while a female nun is called a Bhikkhuni. Bhikkhus and Bhikkhunis ...

(female) or bikshu (male). The Pali term is bhikkhuni (female) or bhikkhu (male), used in Theravada Buddhism (Sri Lanka, Burma, Thailand). ...

and deeds of some of the distinguished Bhikkhuni of early Buddhism are recorded ... the Sanskrit equivalent of the Pali "Bhikkhuni"). Buddhist nuns are ...

female convert. Taking her precepts as a nun, or bhikkhuni, she was later described by the Buddha as a perfect disciple. On one occasion, she answered ...

(Pali: khandha) are identified by the Bhikkhuni Dhammadinna in the "Culavedalla Sutta" (Majjhima Nikaya, 44)[http://www.accesstoinsight ...

Cinderella (French: Cendrillon, German: Aschenputtel), is a popular fairy tale embodying a classic folk tale myth-element of unjust oppression/triumphant ...

bikshuni) which is the equivalent of the Pali term bhikkhuni; bhikkhu is the word used in Theravada Buddhism. [[Image:Japanese_buddhist_monk_by_Arashiyama_cut ...