The Path We Walk as Women
THE BUDDHIST COMMUNITY has always consisted of monks, nuns, laymen, and laywomen, in that order, largely in deference to the social and cultural structures and conditions of the tradition’s birth. However, the question of women’s place and standing within Buddhism has, throughout its 2,600-year history, remained problematic and contentious.
As Buddhist traditions have moved into Western geographic is one more step on that journey.
