{"id":1720,"date":"2017-01-27T08:39:01","date_gmt":"2017-01-27T07:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.samita.be\/?p=1720"},"modified":"2017-02-16T13:17:58","modified_gmt":"2017-02-16T12:17:58","slug":"bhikkhuni-ordination-and-burmese-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samita.be\/en\/2017\/01\/27\/bhikkhuni-ordination-and-burmese-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Bhikkhuni ordination and Burmese politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.samita.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Saccavadi.jpg\" alt=\"Saccavadi\" width=\"166\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The former Burmese Bhikkhuni Saccavadi, who was ordained as a Bhikkhuni in Sri Lanka in 2003, was accused and jailed in Burma some years ago. Some observers feel convinced that her later disrobing came as a direct response to the duress of her experience.<\/p>\n<p>A PhD candidate has now published online his doctoral thesis study of a famous case of a monk tried by Burmese monk authorities and found guilty of apostate views and behaviors. The thesis takes up a number of cases of accusations of monks in Burma for comparative study as part of the context for analysis; part of one chapter is devoted to Sacca&#8217;s case. The thesis offers a fascinating overview of the evolution of Buddhist thought in Burma and across countries in the early 20th century, including some unexpected effects of colonialism on Buddhist thought.<\/p>\n<p>Saccavadi&#8217;s case and the Burmese position on Bhikkhunis is discussed on page 205.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kclpure.kcl.ac.uk\/portal\/files\/60862700\/2016_Ashin_Janaka_1206190_ethesis.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/kclpure.kcl.ac.uk\/portal\/files\/60862700\/2016_Ashin_Janaka_1206190_ethesis.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1721\" src=\"https:\/\/www.samita.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/myanmar-916559_640.jpg\" alt=\"myanmar-916559_640\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.samita.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/myanmar-916559_640.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.samita.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/myanmar-916559_640-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former Burmese Bhikkhuni Saccavadi, who was ordained as a Bhikkhuni in Sri Lanka in 2003, was accused and jailed in Burma some years ago. Some observers feel convinced that her later disrobing came as a direct response to the&#8230;<br \/><a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.samita.be\/en\/2017\/01\/27\/bhikkhuni-ordination-and-burmese-politics\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allgemein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samita.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samita.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samita.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samita.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samita.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1720"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.samita.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2077,"href":"https:\/\/www.samita.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720\/revisions\/2077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samita.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samita.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samita.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}