![]() ![]() The nuns, who were not allowed to participate fully in the religious life of the Soto School, decided to return to Dogen’s tradition and strengthen his egalitarian teaching of the monastic system. ![]() The Meiji government allowed nuns and monks to marry. Under the rules of the Soto tradition women were required to wear only the black robes of novices they had no access to any teaching, secular or monastic they could not lead a temple nor participate in decision making concerning their tradition and their training as nuns was much longer than that of their male counterparts, sometimes three years longer.Īware of the inequity of their position, Japanese nuns nevertheless chose to express their gratitude for this injustice, which offered them the opportunity to ‘polish the stone’, to deepen their practice and to take action.īeginning in 1880 the Meiji era breathed a wind of modernisation whose currents of tradition and westernisation were to create many upheavals and divergences in zen. There were many grievances among Zen nuns at the dawn of the 20th century. ![]()
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