In the past, Buddhism kept men and women strictly separate. Not only were men relegated to their monasteries and women to their nunneries, male and female ascetics were not even allowed to be alone together under a tree or on a boat.
過去佛教嚴男女之防，男眾女眾不僅道場完全分開，甚至在樹下或船上也禁止男、女出家人獨處。