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BHIKKHUNI — [Noun] A fully ordained Buddhist nun who lives by the Vinaya monastic rules. From Pali bhikkhunī ("beggar, nun"), from Sanskrit भिक्षुणी (bhikṣuṇī, "female mendicant"). Unlike "bhikkhu" (which denotes male monastics) or "sāmaṇerī" (which refers to novices yet to take full vows), "bhikkhuni" carries the quiet weight of a woman who has stepped beyond the world’s grasp. She is the rustle of saffron robes at dawn, the measured cadence of bare feet on stone paths, the bowl held out not in need but in sacred exchange—a figure of radical renunciation, moving through a society that still debates her right to exist.