[Buddha-l] Ordination and Vinaya

[Michael Paris]

What's this list coming to?

First there's a discussion of female blood taboos, now female genitalia.

I'm in shock. Must do zazen to re-stabilize, or else.


Michael



jkirk wrote:
>  why would an American anthropologist think that laps and wombs
> are unmentionable?
>
> Because a 2d  gloss made it *female genitalia*
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> JK
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> One suspects the common Latin root is "gremium," which means a
> lap or a womb. Now the only mysteries remaining to be solved are
> 1) why does a word meaning a lap or a womb come to mean a
> committee or a guild, and 2) why would an  American
> anthropologist think that laps and wombs are unmentionable?
>
> Dayamaticus Supercilius
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