In Tibet proper, very few women who become nuns dare to fight for their rights. When the Dalai Lama fled overseas and Tibetan Buddhism began to accept women from all over the world into its ranks, how ever, Western women, possessed of a "feminine self-awareness," began to wonder why Buddhist doctrine favored men. They wondered why Tibetan Buddhism had only male initiates and no female initiates.
的確，在西藏內部，很少女性出家人勇於爭取自己的權益，然而當達賴喇嘛流亡海外，藏傳佛教廣收世界各地的女眾出家後，具有女性自覺意識的西方女眾不免質疑，何以佛教倫理是男尊女卑？