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 1 2|         that women who live the monastic life can attain arhatship.
 2 2|        or superior to most men. Monastic Buddhism had to be acceptable
 3 2|      societal acceptance of the monastic orders. ~In any case, Buddha
 4 2|         for women's entrance to monastic life. Women flocked by the
 5 2|          Wealthy women gave the monastic orders mansions, money with
 6 2|      temptation to renounce the monastic life, it also had the negative
 7 3| precepts (the most basic of the monastic vows). These women are referred
 8 3|         only preached about the monastic life, and not about the
 9 3|        ordination, so it is the monastic life which is important.
10 3|        What matters is that the monastic women properly understand
11 3|    dharma and vow to follow the monastic rules. It is this that makes
12 3|       the DSM in Sri Lanka. The monastic women who live alone have
13 3|         against the traditional monastic rules, but these women have
14 3|   religious instruction. ~Other monastic women live in temples or
15 3|        monks regularly. Western monastic women must let monks eat
16 3|        off from the traditional monastic paths. These women, after
17 3|       language, between lay and monastic life, and between traditional