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 1 1|     that they tend to feel that men and women are equal and
 2 1|        have little bearing upon men's practice on Buddhism,
 3 1|         what was left after the men had finished eating. If
 4 1|       their wives away to other men. Women were lowered nearly
 5 1|         less powerful than were men. As Janice Willis says,    ~"
 6 1|         were told what to do by men and spent their lives in
 7 1| completely enlightened, just as men can. Elsewhere in the scriptures,
 8 1|         of enlightenment as can men, but women also follow the
 9 1|      are no differences between men and women. However, in these
10 1|         any differences between men and women are unimportant
11 2|       conviction that women and men could pursue liberation
12 2|    Buddha also preached to both men and women. He was willing
13 2|         to bring both women and men to a deeper understanding.
14 2|   become arhats in the same way men could was validated by the
15 2|    words, the Buddha thought of men and women as equal, and
16 2|        with or superior to most men. Monastic Buddhism had to
17 2|      twice as many people (both men and women) for half the
18 2|      basically the same path as men. Certain limitations were
19 3|        humble themselves before men, so these traditions tend
20 3|       same path leads women and men to enlightenment, women
21 3|        enlightenment, women and men are given somewhat different
22 3|        married. They teach both men and women. They often teach