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Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms

CHAPTER XVI
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He also is to be reborn as Buddha.

Eitel, p.

64.
(18) The bhikshunis are the female monks or nuns, subject to the same rules as the bhikshus, and also to special ordinances of restraint.
See Hardy's E.M., chap.17.See also Sacred Books of the East, vol.
xx, p.

321.
(19) The Sramaneras are the novices, male or female, who have vowed to observe the Shikshapada, or ten commandments.

Fa-Hsien was himself one of them from his childhood.


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