Thus the tradition of male domination, in a society which at that time required that a woman kill herself if her husband died, was broken and monks and nuns enjoyed basically equal positions.
就在這樣的辯證下，佛教在當時那種女性極度壓抑的保守社會中，打破了男性為首傳統，讓出家的男性、女性擁有大致平等的地位。