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{{Infobox religious biography
| name = Dhammananda
| native_name = {{lang|th|ธัมมนันทา}}
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| caption = Dhammananda Bhikkhuni 2020
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| religion = [[Buddhism]]
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| monastic_name =Songdhammakalyani Bhikkhuni Arama
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| birth_name = Chatsumarn Kabilsingh
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1944|10|06}}
| present post = Abbess
| website = http://www.thaibhikkhunis.org/eng2014/index.html
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''' Dhammananda Bhikkhuni''' ({{lang-th|ธัมมนันทา}}; {{RTGS|''Thammanantha''}}), was born '''Chatsumarn Kabilsingh''' ({{lang-th|ฉัตรสุมาลย์ กบิลสิงห์}}; {{RTGS|''Chatsuman Kabinsing''}}) or '''Chatsumarn Kabilsingh Shatsena''' ({{lang-th|ฉัตรสุมาลย์ กบิลสิงห์ ษัฏเสน}}; {{RTGS|''Chatsuman Kabinsing Satsena''}}; 6 October 1944) is a Thai [[bhikkhuni]] ("Buddhist nun"). On 28 February 2003,<ref name="ordained-at-last">
{{cite web
|url=http://www.thebuddhadharma.com/issues/2003/summer/dhammananda.html
|title=Ordained at Last
|accessdate=17 May 2008
|author=Kristin Barendsen
|url-status=dead
|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20040206044757/http://www.thebuddhadharma.com/issues/2003/summer/dhammananda.html
|archivedate=6 February 2004
}}
</ref> Kabilsingh received full monastic ordination as a bhikkhuni of the [[Theravada]] tradition in [[Sri Lanka]].<ref name="Buddhadharma">archive.org: {{cite web |url=http://www.thebuddhadharma.com/issues/2003/summer/dhammananda.html |title=Ordained at Last by Kristin Barendson |accessdate=2010-11-19 |url-status=bot: unknown |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20040206044757/http://www.thebuddhadharma.com/issues/2003/summer/dhammananda.html |archivedate=6 February 2004 |df=dmy-all }}</ref><ref>สุวิดา แสงสีหนาท, ''นักบวชสตรีไทยในพระพุทธศาสนา พลังขับเคลื่อนคุณธรรมสู่สังคม'', ศูนย์ส่งเสริมและพัฒนาพลังแผ่นดินเชิงคุณธรรม, 1999, page 45-6 {{in lang|th}}</ref><ref>{{cite news
| author = Gemma Tulud Cruz
| title = Bhikkhunis: Ordaining Buddhist Women
| quote = She had to be ordained in Colombo, Sri Lanka...
| newspaper = National Catholic Reporter
| date = 14 May 2003
| pages =
| url = http://www.nationalcatholicreporter.org/globalpers/gp051403.htm
| accessdate = 25 September 2014
}}</ref> She is [[Abbess]] of [[Songdhammakalyani Monastery]], the only temple in Thailand where there are bhikkhunis.<ref>
{{cite web
|url= http://www.thedhamma.com/whos_who.htm
|title= Who's Who in Buddhism
|accessdate= 17 May 2008
|author= David N. Snyder, Ph.D
}}
</ref>

== Early life, education, and ordination ==
[[File:Building in Wat Songkhammakalyani temple complex.jpg|thumb|A new building in the [[Songdhammakalyani Monastery]] complex - the nunnery founded by her mother]]
Chatsumarn Kabilsingh was born in 1944<ref>Yasodhara vol.26-1.{{OCLC|37392382}}, p.5</ref> to [[Voramai Kabilsingh]] and Kokiat Shatsena. Her mother, Voramai, also called Ta Tao Fa Tzu (d. 2003), was ordained as bhikkhuni in a [[Dharmaguptaka]] lineage in [[Taiwan]] in 1971 - the first modern Thai bhikkhuni. <ref>Christopher S. Queen, Sallie B. King {{Google books|6ZsTgY1lNNsC|Engaged Buddhism: Buddhist Liberation Movements in Asia|page=269}}</ref><ref>{{cite news
| author = Simba Shani Kamaria Russeau
| title = Thai Women Don Monks’ Robes
| quote = ...Venerable Voramai or Ta Tao Fa Tzu, became the first fully ordained Thai woman in the Mahayana lineage in Taiwan and turned their family home into a monastery.
| newspaper = Inter Press Service
| date = 1 November 2013
| pages =
| url = http://www.ipsnews.net/2013/11/thai-women-don-monks-robes/
| accessdate = 24 September 2014
}}</ref> ''Songdhammakalyani'' means "temple where women uphold the Dharma" and it is located in [[Nakhon Pathom]] near [[Bangkok]].<ref name="undefined">Prof Jan Willis: [http://shambhalasun.com/news/?p=42648#more-42648 Building a Place for the Theris]</ref>

Chatsumarn received Buddhist instruction and training along with the nuns.<ref>Chatsumarn Kabilsingh. Thai Women in Buddhism. Berkeley, CA: Parallax Press, 1991. Preface.</ref> She says that her father, Kokiat, was "the first Thai man I knew who strongly supported the revival of the ''Bhikkhuni Sangha'' in Thailand."<ref>Chatsumarn Kabilsingh. Thai Women in Buddhism. Berkeley, CA: Parallax Press, 1991. Dedication.</ref> Unusual for Thai women, Chatsumarn received a higher education. After high school, she received her B.A. in Philosophy from Visva Bharati University, her M.A. in Religion from [[McMaster University]] in Canada, and her Ph.D. in Buddhism from [[Magadh University]] in India.<ref>http://www.buddhanet.net/pdf_file/bhikkhuni_patimokkha.pdf</ref> She married, has three sons and 6 grandchildren. She taught for 27 years at Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand, in the Department of Philosophy and Religion.<ref name="diplo"/><ref name="thaibhikkhunis.org">http://www.thaibhikkhunis.org/eng/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogsection&id=1&Itemid=3 {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081226082911/http://www.thaibhikkhunis.org/eng/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogsection&id=1&Itemid=3 |date=26 December 2008 }}</ref> She is a well-known author of many books on contemporary issues in Asian Buddhism; many were published before her ordination and are under her birth name, Dr. Chatsumarn Kabilsingh.

She has often said that she knew she would become a monastic in the Buddhist tradition at some point in her life; she was just waiting for the right time. That time came in 2000 when she took early retirement from Thammasat University and received the bodhisattva's precept from the [[Fo Guang Shan]] order in Taiwan. In 2001, she took her [[Śrāmaṇerī|sāmaṇerī]] ordination in Sri Lanka from R. Saddha Sumana Bhikkhuni and T. Dhammaloka Bhikkhu. In 2003, she was ordained a full bhikkhuni in Sri Lanka, the first Thai woman to be ordained in a Theravada monastic lineage, as Dhammananda.<ref name="diplo">{{cite magazine |title=Was Buddha a Feminist? |magazine=[[The Diplomat]] |url=https://thediplomat.com/2018/04/was-buddha-a-feminist/ |first=Ana |last=Salvá |date=April 11, 2018 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20180415214513/https://thediplomat.com/2018/04/was-buddha-a-feminist/ |archive-date=15 April 2018 |access-date=18 April 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="thaibhikkhunis.org"/> Her ordination lineage is Syamopali from Dambulla chapter. She currently resides at the Songdhammakalyani Monastery in the Muang District, Nakhonpathom province, Thailand.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.buddhistelibrary.org/library/profile.php?aapath=92|title=Buddhist eLibrary :: Profile - Chatsumarn Kabilsingh Ph.D.|work=buddhistelibrary.org}}</ref> Since her ordination, Dhammananda has written more than 100 books, designed to educate the public about various issues related to Thai Buddhism, including the place of women.<ref name="thaibhikkhunis.org"/>

== Other activities ==
Prior to her ordination, Dr. Kabilsingh wrote several books, including ''Thai Women in Buddhism'' (1991) which discusses the place of Thai Buddhist women in the context of Thai society, including those who choose to become [[maechi]]. Both as a layperson and a monastic, she has worked tirelessly to reestablish the Theravāda bhikkhuni lineage in Thailand so that women may become fully ordained monastics. She has encountered resistance from both laymen and monks in Thailand who believe female monastics are illegal and a corruption. Her work has caused some controversy in Thailand,<ref>Sanitsuda Ekakchai. "The Dhammananda controversy" in the Bangkok Post on 9/22/2001. http://www.buddhanet.net/budsas/ebud/ebdha220.htm. accessed on 4/20/2009.</ref> although she receives much support from a growing number of Western Buddhist women.

In 1984, Dr. Kabilsingh started publishing ''Yasodhara: The Newsletter on International Buddhist Women's Activities'', available in almost forty countries.<ref>Christopher S. Queen and Sallie B. King. Engaged Buddhism: Buddhist Liberation Movements in Asia. New York: SUNY Press, 1996. 269.</ref> Some articles from the ''Newsletter'' are available [http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/browse_JJ_Y011 online].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/browse_JJ_Y011 |title=Yasodhara-Newsletter on International Buddhist Women's Activities |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090413221806/http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/browse_JJ_Y011 |archivedate=13 April 2009 |accessdate=25 April 2009}}</ref> A few years later in 1991, Dr. Kabilsingh organized the first international conference of Buddhist women held in Bangkok, Thailand.<ref>Chatsumarn Kabilsingh. Thai Women in Buddhism. Berkeley, CA: Parallax Press, 1991. Foreword, xiii.</ref>

Dhammananda Bhikkhuni may be considered a [[Buddhist modernism|Buddhist modernist]] writer, along with social activists and reformers such as [[Sulak Sivaraksa]], [[A. T. Ariyaratne]], [[Thích Nhất Hạnh]], the [[14th Dalai Lama]], and [[Buddhadasa]]. There are several reasons for this designation. Most obvious is her work on the place of women in modern Asian Buddhism, especially the Theravāda tradition in Thailand. She writes/speaks about issues generally thought to constitute "socially engaged Buddhism" such as Buddhism and nature/ecology/environmental issues, Buddhism and poverty, Feminism and Buddhism, prostitution (in Thailand), and Buddhism and education (lay and monastic).

While Dhammananda has a somewhat global approach as evidenced by founding an international newsletter or hosting an international conference, she has repeatedly stated that most problems in Thailand must be solved by the Thai people without the "help" of outsiders, including Western Buddhists. The solutions she offers are generally down-to-earth, concrete, and practical with an occasional hint of idealism shared by other Buddhist modernists. She makes clear acknowledgments about both the weaknesses and strengths of the current Thai [[Sangha (Buddhism)|Sangha]]; her writing advocates serious reform for monastic and lay Buddhists, not the least of which is the reestablishment of the Bhikkhuni order. Nantawan Boonprasat-Lewis comments "Kabilsingh thus advocates for the Sangha to be more involved in providing spiritual guidance to the laity and deal with their own fear of having women be equal to men. The social crisis, she says, is greater than this fear and needs the cooperation and involvement of all, regardless of gender, class, and ethnicity."<ref>Nantawan Boonprasat-Lewis and Marie M. Fortune. Remembering conquest: feminist/womanist perspectives on religion, colonization, and sexual violence. New York, London: Haworth Press, 1999.</ref>

In 2014, Dhammananda Bhikkhuni was appointed as Pavattini by a Sri Lankan preceptor during a group ordination for women monks in [[Songkhla]], Thailand.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/446865/little-people-prove-change-is-possible|title='Little people' prove change is possible|author=Post Publishing PCL.|work=Bangkok Post}}</ref>

== Comments by others ==
{{quote|I laud Chatsumarn Kabilsingh's efforts to educate her countrymen about both the history and the plight of Buddhist women in their own country. Her efforts to demonstrate to them that Buddhist teachings do not support their treatment of the Buddhist women in their midst is even more important. Perhaps they will listen to what a Buddhist woman from their own country, who is well educated in Buddhist thought, has to say about women in Buddhism. She cannot be dismissed as just another Westerner criticizing Asian culture.|Rita M. Gross, foreword to ''Thai Women in Buddhism''<ref>Chatsumarn Kabilsingh. Thai Women in Buddhism. Berkeley, CA: Parallax Press, 1991. Foreword, xii.</ref>}}

{{quote|Dr. Kabilsingh is a very devoted lady who wholeheartedly works for the good cause of women's liberation in a Buddhist manner.|Sulak Sivaraksa<ref>Chatsumarn Kabilsingh. Bhikkhunã Pàtimokkha of the Six Existing Schools. tr. Bangkok, 1991. Sri Satguru Publications, 1998.. Introduction. http://www.buddhanet.net/pdf_file/bhikkhuni_patimokkha.pdf. accessed on 4/20/2009.</ref>}}

{{quote|Like Ayya Khema in Sri Lanka, [Chatsumarn Kabilsingh] believes that Buddhist women should have the opportunity to fulfill their spiritual aspirations completely, and that is only possible if they can be ordained as ''bhikshuni.'' For it is the institution of the ''sangha'' that would provide women with real security and the opportunity to win the respect of the Thai laity. Dr. Kabilsingh does not foresee a ''sangha'' of ''bhikshuni'' who would devote their time exclusively to meditation, however, or to religious observances. ''Bhikshuni'' would be able to work to solve some of the country’s and the world’s horrendous social problems, with the force of the venerable ''sangha'' behind them... ''Bhikshuni'' in their own "nunneries", could educated girls and women (as Venerable Voramai Kabilsingh does at Watra Songdharma Kalyani) and help and counsel women with family or personal problems. Chatsumarn Kabilsingh, like her mother the Venerable Voramai and like the Venerable Ayya Khema in Sri Lanka, believes that ''bhikshuni'' should engage in social services and that they will want to.|Christopher S. Queen, ''Engaged Buddhism in Asia''<ref>Christopher S. Queen and Sallie B. King. Engaged Buddhism: Buddhist Liberation Movements in Asia. New York: SUNY Press, 1996. 269-70.</ref>}}

== Quotes of Dhammananda Bhikkhuni ==
{{quote|I do not choose to be ordained because I want people to recognise me.{{sic}} I did it because I want to carry on the heritage of the Lord Buddha. I am trying to revive the four pillars of Buddhism—bhikkus, bhikkhunis, laymen and laywomen—that will sustain the religion into the future. I don't mind if some people reserve different opinions about bhikkhunis. The public will be the ones to judge our worth.<ref name="buddhanet.net">"A Path Less Travelled" by Atiya Achakulwisut, originally in the Bangkok Press, found here: http://www.buddhanet.net/budsas/ebud/ebdha220.htm, which is part of the page "On the Restoration of the Bhikkhuni Order".</ref>}}

{{quote|I would be satisfied if I could serve as a refuge for women. I am not aiming at a big market. I don't think Thai women will rise up and get ordained en masse. A monastic path is not a comfortable lifestyle. I am thinking of a small religious community which helps women develop their own spirituality and contribute something to society.<ref name="buddhanet.net"/>}}

{{quote|I know there is some resistance out there. It is not my intention to stick out and provoke anybody. I will try to honour everyone. I will try to be a supatipanno, to be a female monk with good conduct. Time will tell. If society believes this is a worthy role, then people will support it and consider it another alternative for women.<ref name="buddhanet.net"/>}}

== Works in English ==
* ''A Comparative Study of Bhikkhunã Pàtimokkha.'' Chaukhambha Orientalia: India, 1981.
* ''A Cry From the Forest.'' 1981. (further information unavailable)
* ''Bhikkhunã Pàtimokkha of the Six Existing Schools.'' tr. Bangkok, 1991. Sri Satguru Publications, 1998.
** {{ISBN|978-81-7030-570-5}}
* ''Buddhism and Nature Conservation.'' Bangkok, Thailand: Thammasat University Press, 1998.
** {{ISBN|978-974-571-656-8}}
* "Early Buddhists on Nature" in ''This Sacred Earth'' by Roger S. Gottlieb. Routledge, 2004. 130-133.<ref>Roger S. Gottlieb {{Google books|qtJp7aAZV_oC|This Sacred Earth: Religion, Nature, Environment|page=}}</ref>
* "Reading Buddhist Texts with New Light" in <u>Buddhist Exploration of Peace and Justice</u> by Chanju Mun and Ronald S. Green. Honolulu, HI: Blue Pine Books, 2006. 89-96.<ref>Chanju Mun, Ronald S. Green {{Google books|au1oD1kKv94C|Buddhist Exploration of Peace and Justice|page=}}</ref>
* ''Thai Women in Buddhism.'' Berkeley, CA: Parallax Press, 1991.
* ''Women and Buddhism.'' Institute of Women's Studies (St. Scholastica's College), Isis International (Manila, Philippines). Manila: Isis International, 1996.<ref name="thaibhikkhunis.org"/>
* ''[http://www.buddhanet.net/pdf_file/qanda-women.pdf Women in Buddhism: Questions and Answers].'' First published 1998.
** {{ISBN|974-572-607-9}}

== Other materials of interest ==
* Boonprasat-Lewis, Nantawan and Marie M. Fortune. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=4VBSDlpS88cC Remembering conquest: feminist/womanist perspectives on religion, colonization, and sexual violence].'' New York, London: Haworth Press, 1999. accessed on 4/20/2009.
* Interview with Dhammananda (among others) for ABC radio; Interviewed by Kerry Stewart: "The Kindness of Tigers – Buddhist Women"
* Kristin Barendsen. "[https://web.archive.org/web/20040206044757/http://www.thebuddhadharma.com/issues/2003/summer/dhammananda.html Ordained at Last]"
* Yasodhara, Newsletter on International Buddhist Women's Activities, Nakhonpathom, Thailand. Published since 1984

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