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Women's practices of renunciation in the age of Sāsana revivalessay 2005 • Jordt, Ingrid
Burmans • Asia > Southeast Asia
This is an account of a lay meditation movement which followed the destruction of the Buddhist monarchy at the end of the nineteenth century and gave rise to a new class of Buddhist nuns. The movement focused on universal salvation and represented an...