Women, on the other hand, tend to live together in groups as in the cases of the 70-odd nuns at Chiayi County's Luminary Temple, the more than 100 nuns at the Lunghu Nunnery in Kaohsiung's Ah lien village, and the more than 1000 bhiksuni at Fo Kuang Shan.
各個僧團的男性出家人流動性大，離群索居；相反的，女性反倒都是群聚共住的居多。例如嘉義縣的香光寺有七十多位尼師、高雄縣阿蓮鄉的龍湖庵有一百多位比丘尼，佛光山更有一千多位的女性出家人。