Rules for nuns

[Cilla]

Can anyone point me to the whole list of rules for nuns. I am curious. I know there is a lot of them. I'd really like to read that list.

[mikenz66]

Bhikkhunī Pāṭimokkha
The Bhikkhunīs' Code of Discipline
translated from the Pali by Thanissaro Bhikkhu
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka ... -pati.html


Mike

[Cilla]

Thanks for that . I"ve just had a quick look. Pretty scary. Pretty culturally and historically specific aren't they. I wonder if there has ever been any move to update them.

[robertk]

Yes I wonder who dreamed them up?
You seem deepy confident in your wisdom so maybe you can go through and cut out half of the really dumb ones .

[tiltbillings]

Thanks for that . I"ve just had a quick look. Pretty scary. Pretty culturally and historically specific aren't they.

Why would you think that the teachings would not exist within a cultural context. Given that women, in India at that time, were seen to be not much above chattel, the inclusion of women, even with these additional rules, which were a concession to the sexism of the day, the inclusion of women into the sangha and the inclusion of a body of texts by women into the Pali Canon was extremely radical at the time.

[Bhikkhu Pesala]

Yes I wonder who dreamed them up?
You seem deepy confident in your wisdom so maybe you can go through and cut out half of the really dumb ones .

Eight great precepts hanging on the wall, if one great precept would accidentally fall, there'd be seven great precepts hanging on the wall.
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If one great precept should accidentally fall, there'd be nun at all.

[Monkey Mind]

thank you, Bhante

[daverupa]

Yes I wonder who dreamed them up?
You seem deepy confident in your wisdom so maybe you can go through and cut out half of the really dumb ones .

Eight great precepts hanging on the wall, if one great precept would accidentally fall, there'd be seven great precepts hanging on the wall.
...
If one great precept should accidentally fall, there'd be nun at all.

Does this refer to the eight garudhamma rules? Because those rules pretty much apply solely to Mahapajapati...