Gregory Schopen - The Suppression of Nuns and The Ritual Murder of Their Special Dead in Two Buddhist Monastic Texts

The document is an article by Gregory Schopen published in the Journal of Indian Philosophy in 1996 about the suppression of nuns and ritual murder of important female monastic figures described in two Buddhist texts. It examines rules and practices regarding Buddhist nuns as described in ancient scriptures.

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SCHOPEN, GREGORY, The Suppression of Nuns and the Ritual Murder of their Special Dead in Two Buddhist Monastic

Texts , Journal of Indian Philosophy, 24:6 (1996:Dec.) p.563

SCHOPEN, GREGORY, The Suppression of Nuns and the Ritual Murder of their Special Dead in Two Buddhist Monastic Texts , Journal of Indian Philosophy, 24:6 (1996:Dec.) p.563

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Gregory Schopen - The Suppression of Nuns and The Ritual Murder of Their Special Dead in Two Buddhist Monastic Texts

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SCHOPEN, GREGORY, The Suppression of Nuns and the Ritual Murder of their Special Dead in Two Buddhist Monastic

Texts , Journal of Indian Philosophy, 24:6 (1996:Dec.) p.563

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