[Buddha-l] Ordination (again) or the semiotics of privilege.

[Mike Austin]

Jayarava <jayarava at yahoo.com> writes
>--- On Wed, 19/8/09, Mike Austin <mike at lamrim.org.uk> wrote:
>
>> That seems sensible. I suspect the alternative - i.e. calling holders of
>> the 200 vows 'ordained'  and consequently calling all the others 'partly
>> ordained' or 'slightly ordained' - might ruffle a few feathers ;-)
>
>It does raise the question of why vinaya-ordainees refer to themselves 
>as fully ordained though doesn't it? Fully as opposed to what?

I don't know how vinaya-ordainees refer to themselves. However, were the 
question to be why we should now refer to them as 'fully ordained' (and 
no longer just 'ordained'), well that's all your fault ;-)

-- 
Metta
Mike Austin