Woman Monk’s Fight for Equality in Thailand| 5mins
Director: Biel Calderon | Producer: Biel Calderon & Laura Villadiego
Focus Years: 2013 | Country: Spain
Synopsis:
Women in Thailand cannot be ordained Buddhist monks. However, Chatsumarn Kabilsingh, 68, is determined to reverse this unfair tradition. In 2000, she left her life as professor in a renowned Thai university and traveled to Taiwan to receive the bodhisattva's precept. Three years later, she was ordained a full bhikkhuni, the word for female Buddhist monks, in Sri Lanka and came back to her home country to campaign to improve the position of Thai women in religion. Known as Dhammananda Bhikkhuni, she now lives at the Songdhammakalyani Monastery, the first female temple in Thailand, located in Nakhon Pathom, near Bangkok, where she ordains new bikkhunis despite the official ban.
Woman Monk’s Fight for Equality in Thailand
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