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 1 1   |         of gender. In most Asian Buddhist traditions, the leaders
 2 1   |    tension. ~As a female Western Buddhist, I am naturally extremely
 3 1   |         a chariot to explain the Buddhist path: ~  ~" 'Straight' is
 4 2(5)|  Meetings with Remarkable Women: Buddhist Teachers in America, (Boston:
 5 2(7)|  Meetings with Remarkable Women: Buddhist Teachers in America, (Boston:
 6 3   | meditating, and participating in Buddhist ceremonies. However, both
 7 3   |  extensive training in Theravada Buddhist meditation, have become
 8 3   |     continue to follow the basic Buddhist precepts, but disregard
 9 3   |        to the future of American Buddhist practice. Their way is one
10 3   |       boundaries between various Buddhist sects, between traditional
11 3   |       sects, between traditional Buddhist language and secular American
12 3   |        American independence and Buddhist liberation. ~ ~
13 3(8)|         The Religious Woman in a Buddhist Society: The Case of the