| title | authors | month | year | external_url | course | tags | drive_links | pages | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Gender Discrimination and the Pali Canon: An Open Letter to Ayya Tathaaloka |
|
dec |
2009 |
pali-canon |
|
3 |
These two cases may already suffice for the time being to alert us to the possibility that gender discrimination in the Pāli canon may well be the result of later developments. Regarding the overall attitude towards nuns in early Buddhism, I think it stands beyond doubt that an order of nuns was in existence, and from that I would conclude that the Buddha approved of its existence.