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

[Jayarava]

--- 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?

JR