Not that I'm aware. I think they got the text from SacredTexts.org or whatever that site is. The person who published on that site was from a Women's Studies department.

[side note: there is no need to quote whole other posts, eh?] Yes, as of a year and a half ago, the sponsoring monastery requests a waiver from the Ministry of Buddha Sasana and then that waiver would be taken as payment to the visa office when applying for the residency visa. As I recall that same ...

Yep, visas are the biggest practical problem for international monastics. And indeed it is, as with most things, a bigger barrier for people from poor countries. But I don't have any experience with monastics from poor countries trying to live in SE Asia. Perhaps it is no worse for them than people ...

Visas are very problematic for monastics from and to most countries. I'm not even sure if Buddhist countries offer much of a benefit to monastics, although they will certainly be less hostile than other countries. Some countries have special religious class visas, but they aren't always that much ea...

Here is the translation of the ThigA (Therigatha commentary) by CAW Rhys Davids:

https://digital.library.upenn.edu/women ... .html#XLVI

Yes, Dhammayut monks would never stay in a Mahanikay monastery no matter how good their Vinaya was. They don't believe that Mahanikay has a valid ordination. Not true across the board. I have heard many instances of DY monks staying in a MN monastery, even sitting patimokkha together. What I haven'...

Thanks Kidet0. I thought they were.

Its not like these renuncients had no idea who their teacher would be! One must request 3 times to be accepted for training. The three times is just a formality, no need to attach any importance to it. Many Vinaya transactions are done three times. My point is that it is often not easy for someone ...

Training students to show deep appreciation is probably more of a challenge. As Ven BHk said above, it's easier to pick that up when surrounded by Thai people. I mean, training people to attain nibbāna is a challenge too, but we take it for granted that monks are trying to do that. Training anyone ...

Eko Care wrote: ↑Tue Feb 20, 2024 11:31 pm It is not a Vinaya Teaching monastery.

Do you mean they don't teach classes or that they don't follow Vinaya? I'm actually not sure what the OP meant.

Do you think cases like this are a result of taking on too much, with not enough support structures? I'm not sure if you are asking about the bit you quoted. If so, it's just a fact of life. If you let people ordain under you who aren't sufficiently dedicated to you specifically, then you are going...

Or more crudely put by a comedian: I think a better analogy which is more to the point… If all the students miss the same question on an exam, then it is a problem with the teacher and not the students. If someone agrees to be the teacher of westerners (or anyone for that matter) and take them on a...

I do not want to have a discussion about … Just in case you weren't aware, the SuttaCentral discussion forum is much more trans-friendly than here. Not that it's perfect, but it's far better than here. As far as I know, any rules monks have regarding pandakas are parallel to the rules about women. ...

This seems plausible to me, but not knowing pali very well I am not sure. However, if Buddha refers to a bhikkhu, he uses masculine pronouns, right? When a noble disciple recollects the Realized One their mind is not full of greed, hate, and delusion. Yasmiṁ, bhikkhave, samaye ariyasāvako tathāgata...

I absolutely do not want to turn this into a political talk, Lol, then DhammaWheel definitely isn't the right place to ask. Please give a citation for the sutta you quote. In some cases the Pali itself is not gendered and it is that English translator that genders it by using the convention of &quo...