Talk:International Congress on Buddhist Women's Role in the Sangha

message: I think it must be [http://www.congress-on-buddhist-women.org/index.php?id=142 
Statement of His Holiness the Dalai Lama on Bhikshuni Ordination in the Tibetan Tradition] this one. 
:Austerlitz -- 88.72.5.166 (talk) 12:52, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Letter of support

message: Quoting His Holiness the Dalai Lama from this paper :
#In 2005, His Holiness the Dalai Lama repeatedly spoke about the bhikshuni ordination in public gatherings. In Dharamsala, His Holiness encouraged, "We need to bring this to a conclusion. We Tibetans alone can't decide this. Rather, it should be decided in collaboration with Buddhists from all over the world. Speaking in general terms, were the Buddha to come to this 21st century world, I feel that most likely, seeing the actual situation in the world now, he might change the rules somewhat...."
#Later, in Zurich during a 2005 conference of Tibetan Buddhist Centers, His Holiness said, "Now I think the time has come; we should start a working group or committee" to meet with monks from other Buddhist traditions. Looking at the German bhikshuni, Ven. Jampa Tsedroen, he instructed, "I prefer that Western Buddhist nuns carry out this work…Go to different places for further research and discuss with senior monks (from various Buddhist countries). I think, first, senior bhikshunis need to correct the monks' way of thinking.
#"This is the 21st century. Everywhere we are talking about equality….Basically Buddhism needs equality. There are some really minor things to remember as a Buddhist--a bhikshu always goes first, then a bhikshuni….The key thing is the restoration of the bhikshuni vow."
Seems as if the monks corrected the western bhikshunis.
:Austerlitz -- 88.75.201.168 (talk) 16:13, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Austerlitz -- 88.72.7.214 (talk) 21:18, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  The times they are a changing 

message: Have you given reasons for all of your work?
:Austerlitz -- 88.72.7.214 (talk) 18:33, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Austerlitz -- 88.72.7.214 (talk) 18:43, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Don't understand the reasons for deleting 

message: There is only a very short abstract available online [http://www.congress-on-buddhist-women.org/index.php?id=65 
Abstract: The Eight Garudhammas by PD Dr. Ute Hüsken]. In the PDF text there is to be found this short abstract, too, not more. 
:Austerlitz -- 88.72.7.214 (talk) 21:22, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Austerlitz -- 88.75.194.206 (talk) 07:29, 8 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gurudhammas have been a topic 

message: *Some ideas on bhikkhuni ordination and its impacts
This is banned by wikipedia?
:Austerlitz -- 88.75.95.34 (talk) 08:58, 14 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  External Link 

message: Part Four: Day Three and Final Comments by His Holiness "Sometimes in religion there has been an emphasis on male importance. In Buddhism, however, the highest vows, namely the bhikshu and bhikshuni ones, are equal and entail the same rights."
Is this Dalai Lama speeking or not? There are no quotation marks.
What do you think?
:Austerlitz -- 88.75.203.152 (talk) 18:27, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Austerlitz -- 88.75.203.152 (talk) 19:52, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Speech of His Holiness Dalai Lama 

message: “The First Council and Suppression of the Bhikkhuni Order”
"Their anti-women prejudice became institutionalized at that time with the eight garudhammas, the eight weighty restrictions. We must discontinue that prejudice. There is no anti-women prejudice in Jainism and they survived in India; whereas Buddhism had prejudice and did not survive in India."
:Austerlitz -- 88.75.203.152 (talk) 19:50, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Another speech 

message: *Women, see section The Changing Status of Women (and also, the Plight of Western Monastics) @khandro.net
:Austerlitz -- 88.72.14.71 (talk) 19:34, 22 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Austerlitz -- 88.75.213.199 (talk) 15:47, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Meeting March 1993, in Dharmasala 

message: The committee of western bhikshunis and its advisors are going to find out where in the (different) texts for bhikshuni ordination the gurudhammas in general are to be found and whether they are spoken in english or tibetan, for example. As far as I have understood, all of those women have taken these vows, they should know.
:Austerlitz -- 88.75.88.205 (talk) 11:42, 26 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Progress 

message: The former text of Tenzin Palmo taken from References no. 6 has been changed. The quotation I had cited from there cannot be found anymore.
:Austerlitz -- 88.75.202.214 (talk) 08:36, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Change