Buddhist Nuns’ Ordination in the Tibetan Canon Online Bibliography in Connection with the DFG Project compiled by Carola Roloff and Birte Plutat Part II: Subject List February 2021 gefördert durch Gleichstellungsfonds des Asien-Afrika-Instituts der Universität Hamburg Nuns‘ Ordination in Buddhism – Bibliography. Part 2: Subject list February 2021 Content 1. Buddhist Nuns ....................................................................................................................................... 4 1.1. Nuns in Theravāda Buddhism .....................................................................................................................4 1.2. Nuns in Indian Buddhism ............................................................................................................................. 5 1.3. Nuns in East-Asian Buddhism .................................................................................................................... 6 1.4. Nuns in Tibetan Buddhism ........................................................................................................................... 7 1.5. Nuns in the West ........................................................................................................................................... 8 1.6. Biography / Hagiography / Narratives ..................................................................................................... 9 2. Vinaya/Monastic Rules, Rituals and Other Matters ........................................................................... 12 2.1. Mūlasarvāstivāda ........................................................................................................................................ 15 2.2. Dharmaguptaka ........................................................................................................................................... 23 2.3. Pāli/Theravāda ............................................................................................................................................. 25 2.4. Sarvāstivāda ................................................................................................................................................. 29 2.5. Mahāsāṃghika ........................................................................................................................................... 30 2.6. Mahīśāsaka ................................................................................................................................................... 31 2.7. Other Schools ................................................................................................................................................ 31 3. Monasticism / Asceticism / Celibacy .................................................................................................. 32 4. Schools and Lineages .......................................................................................................................... 36 5. Legal Matters ...................................................................................................................................... 40 6. Founding and Restoration of Nuns' Order .......................................................................................... 41 7. Context (cultural, religious, legal, social, political) ............................................................................ 51 7.1. Other religions .............................................................................................................................................. 53 7.2. Gender Studies ..............................................................................................................................................54 7.2.1. General Studies ............................................................................................................................... 56 7.2.2. Gender Construction / Sexual Identity / Bodies ..................................................................... 58 7.2.3. Gender and Health, Sexual Misuse............................................................................................. 60 7.2.4. Gender, Religion, Politics and Rights ........................................................................................... 61 7.2.5. Women's Religious Capacities ..................................................................................................... 62 7.2.6. Motherhood, Family, Marriage .................................................................................................... 63 7.2.7. Gender and Feminist Theory ........................................................................................................ 64 2 Nuns‘ Ordination in Buddhism – Bibliography. Part 2: Subject list February 2021 7.2.8. Feminist Theology / Hermeneutics ............................................................................................ 65 7.2.9. Gender and Religious Identity ..................................................................................................... 65 7.2.10. Women's Roles and Female Images....................................................................................... 66 7.2.11. Sexuality ............................................................................................................................................ 69 7.2.12. Social Status ..................................................................................................................................... 69 7.2.13. Education .......................................................................................................................................... 70 7.3. Textual Sources ............................................................................................................................................. 71 3 Nuns‘ Ordination in Buddhism – Bibliography. Part 2: Subject list February 2021 1. Buddhist Nuns Bechert, Heinz (Ed.) (1984): The World of Buddhism. Buddhist Monks and Nuns in Society and Culture. London: Thames & Hudson. Bingenheimer, Marcus (2008): The Bhikṣuṇī Saṃyukta in the Shorter Chinese Saṃyukta Āgama. In Buddhist Studies Review 25 (1), pp. 5–26. Bodhi, Bhikkhu (1997): Discourses of the Ancient Nuns. Bhikkhuni-samyutta. Translated from the Pāli by Bhikkhu Bodhi. Kandy: Buddhist Publication Society (Bodhi leaves, 143). Available online at https://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/bodhi/bl143.html, checked on 1/22/2021. Pinault, Georges-Jean (1991): Un témoignage tokharien sur les premières nonnes bouddhistes. In Bulletin d’Études Indiennes 9, pp. 161–194. Tsomo, Karma Lekshe (2007): Buddhist Nuns in The Global Community. Available online at https://buddhistinspiration.blogspot.com/2012/05/buddhist-nuns-in-global-community.html, checked on 1/22/2021. Vargas-O'Brian, Ivette M. (2001): The Life of dGe slong ma dPal mo: The Experience of Leper, Founder of a Fasting Ritual, a Transmitter of Buddhist Teachings on Suffering and Renunciation in Tibetan Religious History. In Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies 24 (2), pp. 157–185. 1.1. Nuns in Theravāda Buddhism Bloss, Lowell W. (1987): The Female Renunciants of Sri Lanka. The Dasasilmattawa. In Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies 10 (1), pp. 7–31. Bonnet-Acosta, Cristina (2014): Brave Daughters of the Buddha. The Feminisms of the Burmese Buddhist Nuns. In Karma Lekshe Tsomo (Ed.): Eminent Buddhist Women. Albany: State University of New York Press, pp. 35– 54. Delia, Nicola (2012): Continuity and Transition. A Study of Gender and Agency in a Thai Buddhist Monastic Community for Women. M.A. thesis. University of Hamburg. Dhammawati, Anagārikā (1988): Theravāda Nuns of Nepal. In Karma Lekshe Tsomo (Ed.): Sakyadhītā: Daughters of the Buddha. Ithaka, NY: Snow Lion, pp. 138–139. Gunawardhana, R. A. L. H. (1990): Subtile Silk of Ferreous Firmness: Buddhist Nuns in Ancient and Early Medieval Sri Lanka and their Role in the Propagation of Buddhism. In Sri Lanka Journal of the Humanities 14 (1–2), pp. 1–59. Hüsken, Ute (2006): 'Gotamī, Do Not Wish to Go from Home to Homelessness!’: Patterns of Objections to Female Asceticism in Theravāda Buddhism. In Oliver Freiberger (Ed.): Asceticism and Its Critics. Historical Accounts and Comparative Perspectives. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 211–233. Jordt, Ingrid (1988): Bhikkhuni, Tilashin, Mae-chii: Women Who Renounce the World in Burma, Thailand and the Classical Pali Buddhist Texts. In Crossroads 4 (1), pp. 31–39. Kabilsingh, Chatsumarn (1991): Thai Women in Buddhism. Berkeley: Parallax Press. Kabilsingh, Chatsumarn (1999): The History of the Bhikkhuni Sangha. In Thubten Chodron (Ed.): Blossoms of the Dharma. Living as a Buddhist Nun. California: North Atlantic Books, pp. 17–33. LeVine, Sarah (2000): At the Cutting Edge. Theravāda Nuns in the Kathmandu Valley. In Karma Lekshe Tsomo (Ed.): Innovative Buddhist Women. Swimming Against the Stream. London: Curzon Press, pp. 13–29. 4 Nuns‘ Ordination in Buddhism – Bibliography. Part 2: Subject list February 2021 Nissan, Elizabeth (1984): Recovering Practice. Buddhist Nuns in Sri Lanka. In South Asia Research 4 (1), pp. 32– 49. Salgado, Nirmala S. (2000): Teaching Lineages and Land. Renunciation and Domestication Among Buddhist Nuns in Sri Lanka. In Ellison Banks Findly (Ed.): Women’s Buddhism, Buddhism’s Women. Tradition, Revision, Renewal. Boston: Wisdom Publications, pp. 175–200. Skilling, Peter (1993-1994): A Note on the History of the Bhikkhunī-saṅgha