The 40-something Ven. Ming Chia remembers, "When I became a nun in the 1970s, people thought that becoming a nun was something for grand mothers and women who couldn't support themselves, widows and abandoned wives.
現年四十多歲的明迦法師回憶當年「在我出家的民國六十年代，一般人都覺得只有老太婆和沒有生活能力的寡婦、棄婦才會不得已出家。