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 1 1|           women at the time of the Buddha? The historical Buddha lived
 2 1|         the Buddha? The historical Buddha lived in northern India
 3 1|           the society in which the Buddha grew up and taught. Into
 4 1|             Into this culture, the Buddha made what would have then
 5 1|          his closest disciple) the Buddha said that women are capable
 6 1|   Elsewhere in the scriptures, the Buddha elaborates on this idea,
 7 1|         come." 2~ Thus we find the Buddha teaching that not only can
 8 1|        same path to get there. The Buddha does not say that there
 9 2|                           II~ ~The Buddha acted upon his conviction
10 2|           them were identical. The Buddha also preached to both men
11 2|       However, the portrait of the Buddha painted by the Pali canon
12 2|            oft quoted passage, the Buddha is entreated by his step-mother
13 2|      barefoot to Vesali, where the Buddha had gone. They arrive at
14 2|           gone. They arrive at the Buddha's door crying, with swollen
15 2|         pleads their case with the Buddha. The Buddha at first refuses
16 2|          case with the Buddha. The Buddha at first refuses to ordain
17 2|     Eventually, Ananda changes the Buddha's mind, and the women are
18 2|     ordained as nuns. However, the Buddha insists that they take upon
19 2|            the nuns. ~Why does the Buddha, who is usually willing
20 2|         norms. In other words, the Buddha thought of men and women
21 2|    explanation of the story of the Buddha's reluctance is possibly
22 2|            hundred years after the Buddha's death, which gave plenty
23 2|         These people feel that the Buddha himself must have been aware
24 2|         towards enlightenment. The Buddha may have seen this as the
25 2| commentators generally explain the Buddha's statement about the amount
26 2|         survive by saying that the Buddha felt that it was as valuable
27 2|            It is possible that the Buddha thought his teaching would
28 2|            new and important about Buddha's teachings about women
29 2|     monastic orders. ~In any case, Buddha opened the doors for women'
30 2|          joined simply because the Buddha's teachings made sense to
31 2|            and contemporary of the Buddha, was taunted thus: ~  ~"
32 2|      completely in accord with the Buddha's teaching of anatman, or
33 2|            the centuries after the Buddha's death? The order flourished
34 3|       institutional stability. The Buddha only preached about the
35 3|        practitioners. Although the Buddha taught that the same path
36 3|            being quite true to the Buddha's original teachings. Although