Talk:Mendicant

buddhist countries where mendicant order still survives?
as commented in the other mendicant article, the pracitally identical vinaya (monastic rules) of same age (sarvastivada and dharmagupta i thik are most widespread vinayas among them) and of same traditional status 'survives' and is extensively practiced in most buddhist countries. Seems compatible enough that for the needs of revivals of (female) bikkhuni orders, some srilankan 'nuns' recieved their vows from korean and chinese bhikshunis (and i think in the remote past, the reverse was known to happen as well).. some short info on this: http://www.thubtenchodron.org/BuddhistNunsMonasticLife/the_present_status_of_the_bhikshuni_ordination.html The only exception afaik being the zen 'priests' of japan, but they dont claim to be bikshus anyways. So its not justified to emphasize theravada buddhists only in this context, so I will remove this paragraph. --83.131.150.68 13:12, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

Also, but i will only suggest, and not take initiative arount this, it seems to me that the claim that mendicants cant own property collectively is not really true, if franciscans are to be considered mendicants as they exist today (and imo this is the case with pretty much all other orders mentioned in this list). Perhaps one could say that mendicants refers to those orders that historically lived in this way. Theres a lot of franciscans in Croatia, where I live, and they own quite a lot, particularly in the neighbouring BiH, collectively, for historic reasons; including many parishes; so much in fact that theres a lot of tension between the order and the bishops over it there. I think some old church council loosened restrictions on owning things for them a lot. --83.131.150.68 13:33, 7 August 2007 (UTC)