Many of the issues surrounding bhiksuni (nun) ordination in Tibetan Buddhism are shared by other parts of the Buddhist world. While some regard the bhiksuni ordination movement to be largely driven by Western Buddhist converts, efforts to revive the female order have actually been initiated by various progressive Asian monks and nuns over the last century. New bhiksuni groups at various sites, including Korea, Sri Lanka, and Thailand, are now at varying stages of maturity. All of these groups are participating in an ineluctable movement across Buddhism, one that is ultimately to be connected to larger shifts in our contemporary global civil society. This is a collection of essays taken from a global conference on bhiksuni ordination from all traditions that took place in Hamburg, Germany. The essays in this book cover the breadth of Buddhist traditions and convey the history and the vision for the future of the role of women as ambassadors and curators of the ordained Buddhist community. This book shows a shift toward granting women full ordination in all traditions of Buddhism.

Dignity and Discipline: Reviving Full Ordination for Buddhists Nuns, Thea Mohr & Jampa Tsedroen, Wisdom Publications, Paperback, 352 Pages, $18.95

Thea Mohr is author and director of numerous documentaries dealing with religious subjects, primarily Buddhism. Since 1994 she has been a lecturer for religious studies at Goethe University in Frankfurt.

Bhikshuni Jampa Tsedroen (Carola Roloff) is an ordained Tibetan Buddhist nun and a lecturer and research fellow at Hamburg University specializing in nuns� ordination and women in Buddhism.

Preface by Jampa Tsedroen	ix
	Abbreviations	xiii
	Female Ordination in Buddhism: Looking into a Crystal Ball, Making a Future by Janet Gyatso	1
	The Vinaya Between History and Modernity: Some General Reflections by Jens-Uwe Hartmann	23
	Sects and Sectarianism The Origin of the Three Existing Vinaya Lineages: Therav&abar;da, Dharmaguptaka, and M&ubar;lasarv&abar;stiv&abar;da by Bhikkhu Sujato	29
	Some Remarks on the Status of Nuns and Laywomen in Early Buddhism by Gisela Krey	39
	Women's Renunciation in Early Buddhism: The Four Assemblies and the Foundation of the Order of Nuns by An&abar;layo	65
	The Revival of Bhikkhun&ibar; Ordination in the Therav&abar;da Tradition by Bhikkhu Bodhi	99
	The Eight Garudhammas by Ute H�sken	143
	A Need to Take a Fresh Look at Popular Interpretations of the Tripi&tbdot;aka: Therav&abar;da Context in Thailand by Dhammananda Bhikkhun&ibar;	149
	A Lamp of Vinaya Statements: A Concise Summary of Bhik&sbdot;u&nbdot;&ibar; Ordination by Tashi Tsering	161
	A Tibetan Precedent for Multi-Tradition Ordination by Thubten Chodron	183
	A "Flawless" Ordination: Some Narratives of Nuns' Ordinations in the M&ubar;lasarv&abar;stiv&abar;da Vinaya by Damcho Diana Finnegan	195
	Buddhist Women's Role in the Sa&ndot;gha by Lobsang Dechen	207
	Preserving Endangered Ordination Traditions in the Sakya School by David Jackson	211
	Presuppositions for a Valid Ordination with Respect to the Restoration of the Bhik&sbdot;u&nbdot;i Ordination in the M&ubar;lasarv&abar;stiv&abar;da Tradition by Petra Kieffer-P�lz	217
	Creating Nuns Out of Thin Air: Problems and Possible Solutions concerning the Ordination of Nuns according to the Tibetan Monastic Code by Shayne Clarke	227
	Bhik&sbdot;u&nsbdot;i Ordination: Lineages and Procedures as Instruments of Power by Jan-Ulrich Sobisch	239
	Human Rights and the Status of Women in Buddhism His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama	253
	Gender Equity and Human Rights by Karma Lekshe Tsomo	281
	Appendix	291
	Glossary	305
	Bibliography	309
	About the Contributors	325