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  • The Master bade a certain Bhikkhu, 'Come, do thou, Bhikkhu, ordain him.'

    Psalms of the Sisters Caroline Augusta Foley Rhys 1909

  • Buddhadasa Bhikkhu, a Thai forest monk of the 20th century says this about that passage: "From the Buddhist point of view, this is a matter of karma ... we beseech the Law of Karma through our action and not merely with words."

    Kevin Griffin: Recovery Through The Higher Power Of Karma Kevin Griffin 2011

  • Buddhadasa Bhikkhu, a Thai forest monk of the 20th century says this about that passage: "From the Buddhist point of view, this is a matter of karma ... we beseech the Law of Karma through our action and not merely with words."

    Kevin Griffin: Recovery Through The Higher Power Of Karma Kevin Griffin 2011

  • I had the good fortune last night to attend a talk by Thanissaro Bhikkhu of Metta Forest Monastery, who is also known as “Than Geoff” or “Ajaan Geoff.”

    Shambhala SunSpace » 2009 » February 2009

  • - Dhammapada, 17, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.

    Don’t Look Back in Anger « martinis & mantras 2006

  • The members of the new Order were known as “The Ordained Fol­lowers of the Teacher from Sakka,” but they called themselves simply the Union of Bhikkus (Bhikkhu-Sangha).

    Buddha Armstrong, Karen, 1944- 2001

  • Hearing a Bhikkhu preach, she became a believer, and, handing her child over to her kin, she went to the Bhikkhunīs, and entered the Order.

    Psalms of the Sisters Caroline Augusta Foley Rhys 1909

  • They had been uttered in anguish by a mother who had been living as her daughter's rival with him who later, when a Bhikkhu, became known as the Ganges-bank Elder,324 and were a reflection on the harm, the vileness and corruption of sensual desires:

    Psalms of the Sisters Caroline Augusta Foley Rhys 1909

  • Europeans are inclined to call both of them priests, but this is inaccurate for a Bhikkhu rarely deserves the title [549] and nowadays

    Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 Charles Eliot 1896

  • Brahman any more than a shaven head makes a Bhikkhu, but he who has renounced the world, who is pure in thought, word and deed, who follows the eight-fold path, and perfects himself in knowledge, he is the true

    Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 Charles Eliot 1896

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