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 1 1|                 on the role of women in Buddhism, but it is interesting to
 2 1| socio-historical books on Thai women in Buddhism make no mention of her name
 3 1|                 the distinction between Buddhism as practice and mainstream
 4 1|                 practice and mainstream Buddhism as a socio-historical phenomenon,
 5 1|                to the place of women in Buddhism are discussed. ~Study after
 6 1|               has shown that mainstream Buddhism, both lay and monastic,
 7 1|                might be called designer Buddhism. This accounts for the wide
 8 1|               we compare, say, Japanese Buddhism, Tibetan, and Thai, and
 9 1|        relegated. ~The true practice of Buddhism, though, has always been
10 1|                 impulse, and mainstream Buddhism is no different. Wherever
11 1|             person's worth. ~Mainstream Buddhism, because it can become so
12 1|               to the actual practice of Buddhism. Women sense this primarily
13 2|                be noted that mainstream Buddhism often discourages men from
14 2|                 the state of mainstream Buddhism has become so detrimental
15 2|                 the bonds of mainstream Buddhism in their determination to
16 2|                the practice, mainstream Buddhism serves the function of inspiring
17 2|               that the true practice of Buddhism has hovered about the edges
18 2|        perspective, that the history of Buddhism has hovered about the edges
19 2|           matter what forms of designer Buddhism may take over the mainstream