Can a Buddhist Monk Have a Family?

Book Id: WPLBN0000705718
Format Type: PDF eBook
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Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	Can a Buddhist Monk Have a Family?
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Language:	English
Subject:	Religion, Buddhism, Buddhism and literature
Collections:	BuddhaNet: Buddhist Information and Education Network
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Excerpt: In the Thera-vada tradition a Buddhist monk is a person who has on his own free will abandoned the Family for a homeless existence. However in certain Maha-yana traditions a monk can have a family. eg. in Japan this is supposed to be the case.