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 1 1| prostitutes. Some women chose this life for themselves. Others had
 2 1|           and disadvantages to the life of a courtesan. Courtesans
 3 2|     efforts of women to practice a life of renunciation. In an oft
 4 2|        women who live the monastic life can attain arhatship. Eventually,
 5 2|       women's entrance to monastic life. Women flocked by the thousand
 6 2|       women chose the renunciate's life as preferable to marriage. ~
 7 2|       served food. Thus, the daily life of the renunciates required
 8 2|           to renounce the monastic life, it also had the negative
 9 3|        content themselves with lay life. The primary religious practice
10 3|       permitted by traditional lay life. By the end of the nineteenth
11 3|          who had renounced the lay life and vowed to keep the ten
12 3|         proper ordination has made life difficult for the DSM. Traditionally,
13 3|        preached about the monastic life, and not about the details
14 3|  ordination, so it is the monastic life which is important. What
15 3|     Buddhists in Sri Lanka are the life of a lay woman, supporting
16 3|    supporting the bhikkhus, or the life of a marginalized quasi-monastic
17 3|           between lay and monastic life, and between traditional