In a country like Tibet, where state and church are one, perhaps only the Dalai Lama has the authority to break the canons that have been handed down, "says Lee Yu- chen, who is researching into Buddhist women's issues for her doctorate at Cornell University.
在西藏這樣政教合一的國家，恐怕還是只有達賴喇嘛有足夠的代表性，去打破這因為風俗文化而保留下來的規矩」，研究佛教女性議題，目前攻讀康乃爾大學博士學位的李玉珍表示。