1.1.3 The Vows Of Personal Liberation And Their Analysis For Females

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(1.1.3) The Vows of Personal Liberation for Females and Their Analysis

These materials on “The Vows of Personal Liberation” (སོ་སོར་ཐར་པ་, so sor thar pa, prātimokṣa) present rules for nuns (in D.4), and offer explanatory case studies for those rules (in D.5).

Literature:

  • Blackstone, Kathryn Mary. “Standing Outside the Gates: A Study of Women's Ordination in the Pali ‘Vinaya’.” Ph.D. diss., McMaster University, 1996.
  • Finnegan, Damcho Diana. “For the Sake of Women, Too: Ethics and Gender in the Narratives of the 'Mulasarvastivada Vinaya'.” Ph.D. diss., University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2009.