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'''Zhu Jingjian''' (292 – 361) was a Chinese Buddhist nun, referred to as the first nun in China.<ref>Lily Xiao Hong Lee, Clara Lau, A.D. Stefanowska: ''[https://ift.tt/3dmMIHM Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women: Antiquity Through Sui, 1600 B.C.E ]''</ref>
After having been widowed, she was active as a teacher in [[Luoyang]]. She became interested in Buddhism, and was instructed in the subject by the monk Fashi. In this time period, there were monks, but no nuns in China. However, she, and a couple of other women after her, became learned in Buddhism and started to live as de facto nuns. In 357 she made her vows and from thad year onward, she was referred to as a nun and as such a pioneer. She has been called the first Buddhist nun in China. However, as she and the nuns that followed during the 4th-century was never formally ordained in accordance to the ''vinaya'' ritual, they were formally known as novices rather than fully ordained nuns, and it was not until [[Huiguo]] in the following century that nuns in China was formally recongized as such.
== References ==
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[[Category:361 deaths]]
[[Category:3rd-century Chinese women]]
[[Category:4th-century Chinese women]]
[[Category:4th-century Buddhist nuns]]
After having been widowed, she was active as a teacher in [[Luoyang]]. She became interested in Buddhism, and was instructed in the subject by the monk Fashi. In this time period, there were monks, but no nuns in China. However, she, and a couple of other women after her, became learned in Buddhism and started to live as de facto nuns. In 357 she made her vows and from thad year onward, she was referred to as a nun and as such a pioneer. She has been called the first Buddhist nun in China. However, as she and the nuns that followed during the 4th-century was never formally ordained in accordance to the ''vinaya'' ritual, they were formally known as novices rather than fully ordained nuns, and it was not until [[Huiguo]] in the following century that nuns in China was formally recongized as such.
== References ==
[[Category:292 births]]
[[Category:361 deaths]]
[[Category:3rd-century Chinese women]]
[[Category:4th-century Chinese women]]
[[Category:4th-century Buddhist nuns]]
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