Bhikkhuni Chiang Mai Thailand

Bhikkhuni or female Buddhist monks came to an end according to the rule that the female monks have to be ordained in both sides of male and female Buddhist monks. The female preceptor can do her duty in introducing only one candidate for female ordination once a year and has to wait during the next year. She can do again as the female preceptor when the third year comes.
In the history of Thailand there is no Bhikkhuni or female monk mentioned about, but there is a way appropriate for the women to imitate Bhikkhuni, that is to shave their heads and wear the white robes and vow to practice the eight precepts which lay stress more than five precepts on chastity, refraining from taking food after noon to dawn, refraining from dancing, singing, listening to or playing music, seeing the play, refraining from using garlands, scent, unguents, wearing finery and using high beds and large beds. Though they are still lay women but they are honoured as higher than general lay men for their formal uniforms, precepts and practice, in other words though Bhikkhunis or female monks came to an end through disciplinary rules they are reborn as eight-precepts-upasaka who are honoured. There is the Institute of Mae Chee or nuns in Thailand under patronage of Her Majesty the Queen.