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RELIGIONS JUST GET IT ALL WRONG ABOUT WOMEN

3/23/2019

 
The world's "great" religions all exhibit strong anti-woman bias.  While Buddhism has done better than most of them, Buddhism still has work to do.  Tenzin Palmo was the first Western woman to be ordained a Tibetan Buddhist nun.  The journey was difficult and lonely.  Here's how she describes the way she was treated as a woman seeking to experience the fullness of Buddhist life and practice:

"The lonely times in my life were when I was the only nun surrounded by monks and laypeople. I didn’t belong anywhere. Plus, I was a foreigner. That was very, very lonely. I remember often going home at night and crying. I had to eat by myself, and I lived by myself. But I was working for my lama, so that was the one thing that kept me there.
I desperately wanted to understand Buddhism and practice, and the monks didn’t know how to teach me. And since I was female, they didn’t think it was important to teach me. I’m not trying to whine, honestly. But I remember that this American scholar came and wanted to study for his Ph.D. He wasn’t a Buddhist, and yet they gave him hours and hours every day. They taught him so much, which later he put into his thesis, which became a book. So in one year he learned far more than I ever learned in all the forty years I’ve been with that community. And he wasn’t even going to do the practice. He just wanted to get his doctorate. I remember feeling, why? Here I had given up everything for the dharma, yet they didn’t take me seriously, in the way they took him seriously."

(source:  https://www.lionsroar.com/waking-up-to-patriarchy/)



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