What is the role of gender among the Mahayana Buddhists of Taiwan?
What will be an ideal response?
They believe women are inferior because of menstruation and also their usual attachment to family. As a result, when women become nuns, they start using the term brother to refer to each other and begin dressing and thinking as if they were men.
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