A donchee (Khmer: ដូនជី) is a pious Eight- or Ten Precepts-holding anagārikā laywoman residing in a pagoda in Buddhism in Cambodia, where bhikkhuni (nun's) lineage is not officially recognized. == History == === A Buddhist tradition of female renunciants === Female renunciants have been present since the origin of Buddhism.
A donchee (Khmer: ដូនជី) is a pious Eight- or Ten Precepts-holding anagārikā laywoman residing in a pagoda in Buddhism in Cambodia, where bhikkhuni (nun's) lineage is not officially recognized. == History == === A Buddhist tradition of female renunciants === Female renunciants have been present since the origin of Buddhism.
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