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==Pentahbisan Biksuni==
Pada 22 Oktober 2009, Brahm bersama dengan [[Bhante Sujato]] memfasilitasi upacara pentahbisa untuk [[Biksuni]], dimana empat wanita Venerable Ajahn Vayama, dan Venerables Nirodha, Seri dan Hasapanna ditahbiskan menjadi Biksuni.<ref>{{Cite web|title=History in the Making?|url=http://gobeyondwords.wordpress.com/2009/11/03/history-in-the-making/|publisher=Go Beyond Words: [[Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition#Publications|Wisdom Publications blog]]|accessdate=May 15, 2013}}</ref> Upacara pentahbisan tersebut dilakukan di biara Bodhinyana di Serpentine. Belum ada konsensus secara tradisi yang mengatakan pentahbisan Biksuni merupakan sesuatu yang sah, hal yang sama dilakukan komunitas Theravada lebih dari 1.000 tahun yang lalu, kendati hal itu masih dalam pembicaraan. Brahm mengatakan bahwa tidak ada sejarah yang menolak pentahbisan Biksuni.
ForAtas hispentahbisan actions of 22 October 2009ini, onpada 1 November 2009, atpada apertemuan meeting ofanggota senior membersbiarawan ofMonastic theThailand, Thai monastic sangha,yang helddiadakan atdi [[Wat Pah Pong]], [[Ubon Ratchathani]], Thailand, Brahm wasdikeluarkan removeddari fromgaris theketurunan Ajahn Chah Forest Sangha lineagedan andtidak islagi noberhubungan longerdengan associatedbiara withutama the main monastery indi Thailand, Wat Pah Pong, noratau withdengan anysalah ofsatu thebiara othercabang WesternBarat Forest Sangha branchlainnya monasteriesdari of thetradisi Ajahn Chah tradition.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.forestsangha.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=section&layout=blog&id=1&Itemid=8 |title=news |publisher=Forestsangha.org |date= |accessdate=24 January 2010| archiveurl= http://web.archive.org/web/20100112144531/http://forestsangha.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=section&layout=blog&id=1&Itemid=8| archivedate= 12 January 2010 | deadurl= no}}</ref> ▼<!--
.<ref>{{Cite web|title=History in the Making?|url=http://gobeyondwords.wordpress.com/2009/11/03/history-in-the-making/|publisher=Go Beyond Words: [[Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition#Publications|Wisdom Publications blog]]|accessdate=May 15, 2013}}</ref> The ordination ceremony took place at Ajahn Brahm's Bodhinyana Monastery at Serpentine (near Perth, WA), Australia. There is no consensus in the wider tradition that bhikkhuni ordinations could be valid, having last been performed in Theravada communities over 1,000 years ago, though the matter has been under active discussion for some time. Brahm claims that there is no valid historical basis for denying ordination to bhikkunis.
{{quote|I thought too when I was a young monk in Thailand that the problem was a legal problem, that the bhikkhuni order couldn’t be revived. But having investigated and studied, I’ve found out that many of the obstacles we thought were there aren’t there at all. Someone like Bhikkhu Bodhi [a respected Theravada scholar-monk] has researched the Pali Vinaya and his paper is one of the most eloquent I’ve seen – fair, balanced, comes out on the side of “It’s possible, why don’t we do this?”<ref>{{cite web|title=An Interview with Ajahn Brahm|url=http://bhikkhuni.net/library/ajahn-brahm-interview-nissarah.html|publisher=Alliance for Bhikkhunis|accessdate=May 15, 2013}}</ref>}}
▲For his actions of 22 October 2009, on 1 November 2009, at a meeting of senior members of the Thai monastic sangha, held at [[Wat Pah Pong]], [[Ubon Ratchathani]], Thailand, Brahm was removed from the Ajahn Chah Forest Sangha lineage and is no longer associated with the main monastery in Thailand, Wat Pah Pong, nor with any of the other Western Forest Sangha branch monasteries of the Ajahn Chah tradition.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.forestsangha.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=section&layout=blog&id=1&Itemid=8 |title=news |publisher=Forestsangha.org |date= |accessdate=24 January 2010| archiveurl= http://web.archive.org/web/20100112144531/http://forestsangha.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=section&layout=blog&id=1&Itemid=8| archivedate= 12 January 2010 | deadurl= no}}</ref>
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