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• Books (8)
• Documents (14)
• Reference Shelf (1)

Books (8)

Walking in the Sunshine of the Bhikkhunis: A Biography of Ranjani de Silva (2021) – Suvira Bhikkhuni

Facing the Future: Four Essays on the Social Relevance of Buddhism (2000) – Bhikkhu Bodhi

Path of the White Swans in the Sky: An account of a Sri Lankan Hermitage and its Head Nun (2022) – Bhikkhuni Dr. W. Suvimalee

The Mirror of the Dhamma: A Manual of Buddhist Chanting and Devotional Texts (1963) – Ven Nārada Mahāthera and Bhikkhu Kassapa

Towards a Better World: A Translation of the ‘Lo-wáda Sangarāva’ (2000) – Bhikkhu Kaṭukurunde Ñāṇananda

A Simple Guide to Life (1994) – Robert Bogoda

Copper Isle Miles (2021) – Ajahn Amaro

The Wheel (Series)

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Documents (14)

Featured:

• Politics of Higher Ordination, Buddhist Monastic Identity, and Leadership in Sri Lanka (1999) – Ananda Abeysekara
  ⭐ Recommended

  Since July 20, 1985, a new higher ordination (upasampadā) movement has emerged at the Dambulla Buddhist temple in Sri Lanka. The architect of this movement, a Sinhala Buddhist monk named Inamaluwe Sumangala, challenges the contemporary Buddhist monastic practice of ordaining monks on the basis of their castes

  26 pages

  Online pdf
• Temporary Ordination in Sri Lanka (1984) – Richard Gombrich
  ⭐ Recommended

  In the interests of conservatism it has had to compromise with modernity in such features as the veneer of bureaucratically efficient procedures and also the multiplication of interstitial roles. But the groups of devout men firmly penned into their quarters and lectured daily on the Jatakas pose no threat to traditional Buddhist order

  25 pages

  Online pdf

See also:

Reviving the Buddha: The Use of the Devotional Ritual of Buddha-Vandanā in the Modernization of Buddhism in Colonial Sri Lanka (2020) – Soorakkulame Pemaratana

Buddhicizing or Ethnicizing the State: Do the Sinhala Sangha Fear Muslims in Sri Lanka? (2013) – Suren Rāghavan

We Love Our Nuns: Affective Dimensions of the Sri Lankan Bhikkhunī Revival (2014) – Susanne Mrozik

Tradition, Power, and Community among Buddhist Nuns in Sri Lanka (2017) – Nirmala S. Salgado

Images and Monasteries in Faxian’s Account on Anurādhapura (2019) – Haewon Kim

Ven. Walpola Rahula and the Politicisation of the Sinhala Sangha (2011) – Suren Rāghavan

The Mothers of the Righteous Society: Lay Buddhist Women as Agents of the Sinhala Nationalist Imaginary (2020) – Nalika Gajaweera

Pilgrimage and the Structure of Sinhalese Buddhism (1982) – John C. Holt

Priming the Lamp of Dhamma: The Buddha’s Miracles in the Pāli Mahāvaṃsa (2010) – Kristin Scheible

Ways of Knowing and Transmitting Religious Knowledge: Case Studies of Theravāda Buddhist Nuns (1996) – Nirmala S. Salgado

Prayer and Worship (1983) – G. P. Malalasekera

Longing to Ordain (2007) – Bhikkhuni Sudhamma

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Reference Shelf (1)

Photo Dharma (2009) – Bhikkhu Ānandajoti

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