Not only were they all men, unfortunately, most of the scriptures that survive were "selectively" recorded by the schools that are the most conservative regarding women, the Theravadin and Mahisakah schools.
這些弟子不僅都是「男性」；更不幸的是，今天保存下來的律典，多數出自對女性態度保守的「部派佛教」，「有所選擇」的記錄下來。