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In ancient India, a set of stories known as Sanyuttanikaya celebrate the courage and wisdom of ten Buddhist nuns [bhikshunis] under spiritual duress. [1] These stories seem to have been quite widespread across various regions and eras. In one tale, Mara, a tempter, "tries to awaken [in the nuns] the lustful thoughts, painful memories, and past fears that would make a weaker person abandon the past of spiritual attainment." The tempter also insults their intellectual and spiritual competence, saying that one of the sisters, Soma, has only a woman's...
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