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Therefore, let us not make the nikaya issue the major obstacle.

A Summary Report of the 2007 International Congress on the Women's Role in the Sangha: Bhikshuni Vinaya and Ordination Lineages ��� Part Four: Day Three and Final Comments by His Holiness 2007

Dual sangha ordination would be more acceptable to the other nikaya traditions, while involving

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For the sake of sangha harmony and friendship, then when needed, bhikshuni preceptors from other nikaya traditions and bhikshunis ordained in other nikaya traditions but following the

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The objection is that two different nikaya traditions of

A Summary Report of the 2007 International Congress on the Women's Role in the Sangha: Bhikshuni Vinaya and Ordination Lineages ��� Part Four: Day Three and Final Comments by His Holiness 2007

The only restriction on members of a dual nikaya sangha stated in the Pali Vinaya texts is if a bhikkhu or bhikkhuni belongs to a group that has had a schism with the sangha or has been expelled from the sangha.

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Due to geographic and cultural differences, eighteen schools (sde-pa, Skt. nikaya, Pali: nikaya) evolved within what Mahayana texts later called “Hinayana” Buddhism.

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Of the eighteen nikaya schools, three bhikshu lineages have survived until today with unbroken continuity:

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