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Special Rules for Nuns? (Ayya Tathaaloka)

Ayya Tathaaloka and the Buddhist nuns of the Alliance for Bhikkhunis (bhikkhuni.net)

Global Congress on Buddhist Women, Hamburg, Germany

Special rules for females that subordinate Buddhist nuns to monks (garudhammas or "heavy offenses") are not what they first appear to be.

American Theravada Buddhist nun Ayya Tattaaloka reveals what her research, as well as that of other Buddhist scholars, found. There appears to be no gender difference. (How could that be? We are all led to believe women are subordinate to men in the monastery).

Both monks and nuns have sanghadisesa (calling for a meeting and subsequent meeting of the Sangha) disciplinary rules, which are rather heavy.

In the same way, both males and females have "heavy offenses," that is, garudhammas.

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• Ayya Taathaloka (videos); Dhr. Seven, Wisdom Quarterly, originally compiled on 9/17/10

Int'l Women's Day: Inspire Inclusion (3/8)

InternationalWomensDay.com; Ashley Wells, Crystal Q., CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Search International Women's Day 2024 events (internationalwomensday.com)

IWD 2024 campaign theme: Inspire Inclusion

International Women's Day is March 8. Imagine a gender equal world -- a world free of bias, prejudice, stereotypes, and discrimination.

Imagine a world that's diverse, equitable, and inclusive, a world where difference is valued and celebrated.

Together we can forge women's equality. Collectively we can all #InspireInclusion.

Do men matter? Caring allies? "Inclusion"?

Celebrate women's achievement. Raise awareness about discrimination. Take action to drive gender parity.

IWD belongs to everyone, everywhere. Inclusion means all IWD action is valid. Int'l Women's Day 2024 internationalwomensday.com

"Peace" in Buddhist Perspective

Abbot Dr. Karunananda (BodhiMission.com), Ashley Wells, Wisdom Quarterly (UPDATED)

Women's International Perspective (thewip.net)

 

DEFINITION 

Peace: harmony, security, freedom from conflict, happy relationships, serenity, inner tranquility, stability, silence, stillness.

THREE KINDS

1. Security means justice and the end of outer-conflict or “world peace.”
2. Responsibility means harmonious relations with others or “mutual peace.”
3. Nirvana is ultimate serenity, joyful tranquility, or “inner-peace.”

• Kathina Ceremony, 10-26-13, Bodhi Mission, Long Beach, CA

WORLD PEACE NOW

There are three root reasons for war between countries: 1. greed, 2. hatred/fear (aversion), 3. delusion.

 

Jack Kornfield at Burmese American Democratic Assn. of San Francisco 2008 PeaceWalk

 

What is the solution, the way to peace? How can we gain mutual security, healthy inter-dependence, and honest diplomatic relations? We must aim for justice in the form of win-win solutions so that both sides are ameliorated and can feel well treated.

 

The Story of Prince Vitatubha: A half-slave/half-royal Shakyan prince was married off to a neighboring country. When he discovered his mixed birth and the disdain of his relatives, the Shakyans, he was humiliated and vowed revenge on the entire clan. He would avenge having been treated like an inferior even after he rose to the rank of head of state in the neighboring country.

 

The Buddha advised the Vajjian confederacy about social practices that would lead to societal peace and invincibility, Seven Societal Practices:

1. Meet frequently in concord.
2. Maintain rules, not violating old rules with new rules.
3. Act in accord.
4. Listen to elders.
5. Respect women.
6. Honor ancient practices.
7. Support truth seekers.

Buddhist Peace Fellowship (BPF) Buddhist Peace Delegation march

MUTUAL RESPONSIBILITY
Reason for conflict between friends and family is unclear social duties (dharma).
Solution or way to peace is the Path of an Excellent Householder:

1. Eradicate the Four Vices in Conduct (murder, theft, sexual misconduct, perjury).
2. Overcome Four Unskillful Motivations (desire, anger, delusion, fear).
3. Avoid the Six Channels for Dissipating Wealth (intoxication, loitering, unseemly entertainment, gambling, unfit companionship, idleness).
4. Make money as harmlessly as a bee gathering nectar from a flower then Divide Earnings in Four (enjoying one portion, reinvesting two portions back into the business, and saving the fourth for times of need).
5. Practice the Four Bases of Popularity and leadership (hospitality, sweet speech, generosity, impartiality to all).
6. Perform the duties (dharma) incumbent on ourselves and our Six Reciprocal Relationships (mother and father, teachers and mentors, spouse and children, friends and associates, servants and employees, wandering ascetics and Brahmin priests).

PERSONAL PEACE
Bhikkhu Bodhi (The Way to the End of Suffering)

(Buddhist Peace Fellowship)

Follow the Noble Eightfold Path to various heavens in space and other pleasant dimension or to final liberation from all rebirth and suffering (nirvana):

1. Harmonious View: We are all inter-dependent.

2. Peaceful Intention: renunciation (letting go), friendliness/metta, harmlessness/karuna
3. Peaceful Speech: kind, honest, uniting, calming, encouraging, useful (rather than idle chatter).

4. Just Action: protect life, protect property, protect others from injury.

5. Harmonious Livelihood: avoid trade in weapons, prostitutes, slaves, animals for slaughter, flesh (meat) butchering, poisons, intoxicants (AN 5:177).

6. Peaceful Effort -- prevent unwholesome states; abandon them; arouse wholesome states; maintain and perfect them

7. Peaceful Mindfulness: wakefulness and clear comprehension (sati-sampajañña) of the environment.

8. Harmonious Concentration: calm, cool, collected states of inner-stability (four meditative absorptions known as the material jhanas).

International Women's Day (March 8th)

InternationalWomensDay.com

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Every year on March 8th, the world celebrates International Women’s Day (IWD).

IWD provides a common day for globally recognizing and applauding achievements as well as for observing and highlighting gender inequalities and issues.

Not just on IWD, but all year round, many organizations and individuals work to support gender equality through a multitude of initiatives, causes, and actions [including the new Occupy Movement].

• Nude and controversial for the movement (femen.org)
• Topfree (topless) Equal Rights Association (tera.ca)
  

We are dedicated to promoting women’s equality and assist all females to reach their full potential [and enlightenment]. Register a My IWD account and select the 'My Page' option.

Hundreds of pages have been published and are being promoted. Here are just a few examples of what some organizations are doing to support women and International Women's Day. More

BBC World Service's International Women's Day global round up - Women for Women International's Join me on the Bridge campaign - The United Nations "UN Women Australia" - EQUALS partnership of charities video - Oxfam's Get Together With Friends campaign - Thomson Reuters' International Women's Day slideshow - The Guardian's TOP 100 Women initiative's...

Daily Show's Jon Stewart lays into sexist Rush Limbaugh over contraception comments (huffingtonpost.com).

Int’l Buddhist Conferences set for 2012

Wisdom Quarterly

The next International Buddhist Conference will be held in 2012 on the Theravada Buddhist island of Sri Lanka. The title and theme of it is “New Millennium Challenges for Buddhism,” according to the Sri Lanka Minister of Higher Education, S.B. Dissanayake. The conference will be held from February 17-19 at the Buddhasravaka Bhiksu University, Anuradhapura.

• China overreacted to India Buddhist conference
• USA 2012: Buddhist Geeks Conference
• England 2012: Manchester Buddhist Convention
• Korea 2012: World Fellowship of Buddhists Conference
• Thailand 2012: Int'l Conf. on Early Buddhism-POSTPONED
  

Over 100 Buddhist scholars from local and international Buddhist organizations will take part. The conference is aimed at presenting over 100 research papers from different parts of the globe to discuss the progressive aspects of the Buddhist establishment in their respective countries.

Moreover, the issues and challenges Buddhist monastics and laypersons encounter will also be discussed. In addition, the forum will call attention to several goals such as investigating a meaningful mechanism to modernize Buddhist education. Other goals are to share strategies, adopted by different Buddhist traditions, to:

• upgrade Buddhism, to draft a coordinated plan to propagate the Buddha's message to an ultra-modern society equipped with the latest consumer technology and the resultant mindset, to discuss ways and means of reintroducing the age-old relationship between monastics and laity.

NOMINATIONS OPEN
2012 Excellence in Buddhist-Christian Studies
The Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies

The Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies is now receiving nominations for the 2012 Frederick Streng Book Award for Excellence in Buddhist-Christian Studies. Nominations must be received by Dec. 31, 2011. The winner will be announced at the annual meeting of the Society. The criteria [are]... More

First Annual Buddhist Nuns Day (AFB)

Susan Pembroke, President, Alliance for Bhikkhunis

Thank you, those working around the globe to make the First International Bhikkhuni Day a success. This day of awareness is calling attention to the issue as well as raising funds to support American Buddhist nuns.

The Alliance for Bhikkhunis (Nuns) is moved by the kindness and generosity of those who give so freely of their time and talents. There is a growing sense of joy and optimism as more enter the widening circle of friendship and goodwill.

American Buddhist nuns or bhikkhunis (Sopaporn Kurz/AFB).

All of our sisters are invited, regardless of Buddhist tradition, to join us on September 17th to celebrate the founding of the Bhikkhuni Sangha (Order of Buddhist Nuns). We are celebrating the fact that there are many thousands of women in robes [26] centuries after the Buddha began teaching.

Whether Theravada, Mahayana, Vajrayana, or other, feel free to use any of our tools to educate as well as raise funds for your affiliated center, temple, monastery, school, hospital, or other agency or enterprise.

International Bhikkhuni Day is intended to be a global grassroots celebration of Buddhist women, uniting and empowering them. Please join in -- even if it is only to meditate along with us, knowing that we are all part of global community committed to protecting the Bhikkhuni Sangha.

• Additional downloads have been added to the site. American nun Ven. Tathaaloka Theri has offered the paper “The Amazing Transformations of Arahant Theri Uppalavanna.” It is a fascinating, mythic tale that “serves as a catalyst for exploration, inspiration, and insight.”
• The renowned scholar Ven. Analayo has very graciously contributed his article “Mahapajapati’s Going Forth in the Madhyama-agama,” reprinted with permission from the Journal of Buddhist Ethics. Ven. Analayo’s incisive analysis of early discourses sheds light on critical texts that have been lost in subsequent translations as well as exploring the societal forces that shaped the early Bhikkhuni Sangha.
• Ven. Bhikkhuni Ajahn Thanasanti has written a very personal article about the women who have figured prominently in her spiritual development. Dipa Ma is one of these “Extraordinary Women.”
• Take a moment to look at the recently added Power Point on bhikkhuni history on the homepage. It has intentionally been left in non-PDF format so individuals and groups can tailor the Power Point slides to suit their needs.
• Feel free to translate into other languages or add or remove slides based on what works best for different circumstances, tradition, or lineage.
• There is a new page with Dhamma and videos from 12 bhikkhunis including Ayya Gunasari’s talk on “Solitude.”
• We remain grateful to Melanie Davies for allowing us to use her beautiful chant on the Recollection of the Foremost Arahant Bhikkhunis (LISTEN).
  

There is still time to create a FIRSTGIVING PAGE.

• Click on the “Join Now” link in white and green to be taken to screens for a walk through the process.
  
• After creating your own page, forward the link to family and friends and invite them to sponsor your day of meditation, learning, and radiating metta (loving-kindness) to this world which is so in need of healing.
• Organizing a day, a half day, or a talk can happen any time you find convenient.
  
• The Firstgiving site will remain open until December 17th, but please do not feel that your event must happen by September 17.
  

Thank you so much for caring about ordained women and wanting to support and protect them!

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First Annual Int'l Buddhist Nuns' Day

Susan Pembroke (firstgiving.com/allianceforbhikkhunis) with Wisdom Quarterly

Participate in the First Annual International Bhikkhuni Day:

• September 17, 2011

WHAT is it? The first IBD is a global, grassroots effort devoted to honoring Mahapajapati Gotami, the founder of the Nuns' Sangha. It also honors all of ou

r spiritual mothers -- ordained women, laywomen teachers who have transformed our practice, inspiring historical figures, actual mothers, grandmothers, sisters, aunts, and cousins -- any woman who has brought out the best in us.

This day celebrates our spiritual legacy. It is a chance to learn about the history of prominent Buddhist women, and it is also an opportunity to raise funds to support nuns (bhikkhunis).

HOW do we accomplish these things? We simply gather in a circle, meditate together, and talk about the women we love and admire. The gathering can take place anywhere -- in a temple, center, or your living room or backyard.

• Access materials from the Alliance for Bhikkhunis (AfB) site and invite fellow practitioners to join in on a day of meditation, reflection, and learning.

AfB’s home page (bhikkhuni.net) has Dharma talks and downloadable handouts which can be printed and used to lead group discussions. Feel free to adapt and revise the materials in ways that make them more meaningful to individual communities.

Mahajapati Tells Her Story

Excerpt from bhikkhuni.net

“I can never forget the moment I was told [my son] Siddhartha had left the palace. At first I could not believe it. I was in shock. It was as though time had stopped. The sobbing Yasodhara [his wife] had to repeat herself over and over until I could accept that Siddhartha was serious about his leave taking. My son, my handsome, good hearted son was gone. I never thought of him as my stepson, or even nephew. He was my son. I nursed him. I mothered him. He was my boy. Sometimes his leaving made sense, other times it remained incomprehensible. It upset me that he was in turmoil yet could not confide in me. When did this breach between us happen? How did I fail to notice that Siddhartha was no longer a part of us? But, upon reflection, I began recalling comments he had made and subtle ways he revealed a growing disenchantment with our way of life. In hindsight, I could point to moments that foretold his departure.”

• GROUP USE: her story as the first Buddhist nun in history can be printed and passed around a circle. Each person can read a paragraph or so in the midst of deep listening, opening the floor to sharing comments and reactions. A list of questions appears at the end of the narrative, making it easy for anyone to facilitate a conversation about the remarkable founder of the Bhikkhuni Sangha.

Honoring Our Women Teachers
Excerpt from bhikkhuni.net

“What woman in your life was your first spiritual teacher? What woman brought out the best in you? It could be your mother or could be another woman, a grandmother, an aunt, older sister, or teacher. Can you tell a story or two about her which captures her personality and conveys how she touched your life and the lives of others? Were there other women who impacted your spiritual development as well? If so, who are they and how were they pivotal? Mahapajapati advocated for the vulnerable women who fell under her protection. Has any compassionate, strong woman been an advocate for you, protected you? If so, how? Perhaps the people who mothered and nourished you were men -- your father, grandfather, brother or uncle? Can you speak about their kindness, tenderness, love, and belief in you?”

Fund Raising

Contact Susan Pembroke to share news of participation. She is happy to answer any questions. Use Firstgiving to raise funds for this meditation pledge-a-thon. I'm delighted to help anyone create his or her own Firstgiving page. With a page for your team, ask family and friends to support your day of honoring women spiritual leaders. Even 10-20 people who sponsor this day of meditating and pledge $5 to $25 can produce great good, with hundreds of people joining the effort, connecting us all on this sacred day.

Let us know which nuns' abbey (bhikkhuni vihara) should receive your pledges. What is raised will be disbursed to nuns. This is NOT a fundraiser for the Alliance for Bhikkhunis.

Temples and Centers

International Bhikkhuni Day can be an annual fundraiser for temples or centers. Let's brainstorm ways to help raise funds following the meditation pledge-a-thon through silent auctions, arts and crafts sales, admission to a dinner and film, as well as other ideas that can be translated into enjoyable community-building and fundraising events.

Every September is for honoring female spiritual luminaries and chronicling their stories. We vow to protect women monastics and their essential role in preserving the Dharma. Telling their stories is an indispensable part of accomplishing these goals.

Sisters in Buddhism: Women's Conference

Sanitsuda Ekachai (BangkokPost.com)

Female novices at the Sathira-Dhammasathan Buddhist Meditation Center in Bangkok. Novices keep ten major precepts rather than the hundreds of rules protecting fully ordained monastics (telegraph.co.uk).

Has the male Sangha's stern frown on female ordination stopped women's determination to pursue a monastic life [in Thailand]?

Everyone dropping by the Sathira Dhammasathan Nunnery and Dharma Center this week will realize how the male Sangha's attemptsto keep women down are ineffective and irrelevant.

For a whole week starting Sunday, June 12, the lush greenery of the Dharma center will be enlivened by different shades of the saffron robes of Buddhist nuns interspersed with the white robes of novices or ten precept nuns. The soothing sounds of their chants will fill the air with a message of peace and sisterhood.

They will be coming to Bangkok from around the world -- female monastics, scholars in Buddhism, social activists -- for the Sakyadhita International Conference. There they will discuss the practical application of Buddhism incontemporary society, review the barriers Buddhist women face in developing their full potential, and share recent studies of interest for Buddhist women.

The pursuit of knowledge is definitely not the sole reason why they are traveling across the globe to attend this biennial meeting.

Female ordination in the Theravada Buddhist tradition was unthinkable just three decades ago. But it is now a reality. There have always been white-clad ten precept novices. Yet, the bhikkhuni (fully-ordained female equivalent of a Buddhist "monk" or bhikkhu) may still face many obstacles. This is in addition to the institutionalized gender discrimination Buddhist women routinely face. But there has been progress.

Working against the odds in this male-dominated world requires lots of inner strength. The Sakyadhita conference is where women can come together to celebrate all that is possible and to fortify their determination through connecting with the positive energy of others in the same cause. More

Int'l Conference on Women Bangkok, June 12-18

NEWS FROM THE CONFERENCE

A Daily Conference Blog (English)

Conference Facebook page (Thai & English)

Sakyadhita Thailand reports from the Conference (Thai)

Opening ceremonies slideshow on YouTube

YouTube video from The Buddhist Door

International Women's Day 2011 (video)

(SplashVOD) Join Wisdom Quarterly for the largest gathering of women for International Women's Day in the history of the world. The Women's Information Network (The WIN) is presenting celebrations at venues in 10 U.S. cities and in 175 countries around the world. Log on to find the nearest celebration: InternationalWomensDay.org. This a time for all people with women and men shoulder to shoulder. Individuals lead the way free of gender barriers. Nothing and no one can stop a movement whose time has come! Our friend Gina Marie says "Women's Day" is an insult to women, who are actually a majority on the planet. But we all have to recognize how women are subordinated, undermined, and discounted before we can claim to effectively being doing anything about it. It improves life on Earth for men, children, women, unseen beings, animals, and even plants that women are recognized and treated as the equals they always have been.

• Register free in March: 100womenofdestiny.com

Buddhist Women's Conference

Early registration deadline

The Buddhist Council of the Midwest presents the 4th Annual Buddhist Women's Conference in Chicago, March 14, 2009 at DePaul University

Early registration ends February 14 ($70); later registration will be $90.

• Discounts for students, clergy, and monastics.
• Some scholarships available.
• Registration prior to March 1st will include lunch.

Featured Keynote address: "Buddhist Insights into Women's Ways of Healing" with Sensei Ellen Birx, Ph.D., R.N., professor of nursing at Radford University and the author of Healing Zen.

Workshops by Theravada/Vipassana, Mahayana, and Vajrayana speakers.

• Venerable Gunasari, bhikkhuni (also an M.D.)
• Sensei Joan Hoeberichts is a Zen teacher in the lineage of the White Plum Asangha, founded by Maezumi Roshi
• Marcia Grabowecky Ph.D. is professor of psychology at Northwestern University and member of the Mind Life Institute
• And many more

For more information and to register, visit: http://www.dharmawomen.org/