August 14, 2024 at 6:17 am
#51384
Keymaster
“Is this the correct translation, and if it is so, why would this be a rule – why would monks be more respected than nuns?”
- I don’t think I should try to explain such things. Some issues are discernible only to a Buddha.
In the “Gotamī Sutta (AN 8.51)“, Buddha says:
“Ānanda, if females had not gained the going forth from the lay life to homelessness in the teaching and training proclaimed by the Realized One, the spiritual life would have lasted long. The true teaching would have remained for a thousand years. But since they have gained the going forth, now the spiritual life will not last long. The true teaching will remain only five hundred years.
- But Buddha’s predictions did come true. The “peak period” of the Buddha Sasana lasted only 500 years.
- Also see “Counterfeit Buddhism – Current Mainstream Buddhism.”