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The next is an from Inquiring Mind, Spring 2011. It's the introductory and explanatory part written by the publishers to articles written for Inquiring Mind by Ajahn Thanasanti named "Finding A Means Forward." I produced it here (hand entered it) since I can't find it everywhere on the web. Nevertheless, the content it prefaces is just a reduced version of Ajahn Thanasanti's weblog of 9.9.10 found at: http://awakeningtruth.org/blog/?p=78 Should she o-r shouldn't she? Ajahn Thanasanti Bhikkhuni attempts to solve the complex facets affecting her decision on whether to become fully ordained Buddhist nun (p. 3). In 1991 Ajahn Thanasanti Bhikkhuni ordained as a siladhara, a distinctive type of nuns' instruction developed 10 years earlier from the Ajahn Chah-Ajahn Sumedho Forest Tradition in England. The siladhara order has flourished in England on the small-scale despite outstanding unrecognized from the greater Buddhist community. The development of the siladhara group has offered the book intention to aid Western women's goals to rehearse as nuns. A bhikkhuni, unlike a, is a ordained nun whose standing within the Buddhist sangha contains the authority to ordain other women. Bhikkhuni ordination died out in Theravada Buddhist nations over a millennium before, while founded by the Buddha. Recently, nevertheless, it's been re-established in-a few nations, mixing wish among many, along side debate and perhaps disapproval by some. Last Year the parents of the Ajahn Chah Sumedho lineage in Thailand reaffirmed its conformance with the Thai Sangha ruling council's place that bhikkhuni ordination had disappear and couldn't be legally elevated there. Similarly, the council of parents in England reaffirmed that the siladhara order shouldn't be viewed as-a stepping-stone to complete bhikkhuni ordination for ladies, and the authority required members of-the order to recognize this in writing. Being asked to sign this type of record put the siladhara community in to chaos. Numerous siladharas, including Ajahan Thanasanti, left the city in England, with some quitting the nun's existence entirely (p. 1-6 ).( Bold typ-e are my empahses; italics, theirs.) See also: http://www.buddhismwithoutboundaries...ahn-Thanasanti mayUallB@eze bg