Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Notes on pronunciation
- Dramatis personae
- PART I
- Introduction: The tradition of Buddhist female renunciation in Sri Lanka
- 1 The ancient order of nuns in Sri Lanka
- 2 Nineteenth-century Ceylon: the emergence of the lay nun
- 3 Theosophists, educators, and nuns
- 4 The Saňghamittā Sisterhood
- PART II
- Epilogue: Women under the Bō tree
- Appendices
- Notes
- Select bibliographies
- Index and glossary
1 - The ancient order of nuns in Sri Lanka
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 November 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Notes on pronunciation
- Dramatis personae
- PART I
- Introduction: The tradition of Buddhist female renunciation in Sri Lanka
- 1 The ancient order of nuns in Sri Lanka
- 2 Nineteenth-century Ceylon: the emergence of the lay nun
- 3 Theosophists, educators, and nuns
- 4 The Saňghamittā Sisterhood
- PART II
- Epilogue: Women under the Bō tree
- Appendices
- Notes
- Select bibliographies
- Index and glossary
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- Women under the Bo TreeBuddhist nuns in Sri Lanka, pp. 17 - 23Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1994