Penn State U. Students studied Buddhism at Wat Thai,D.C.

Welcomed to Wat Thai,D.C. by Ven. Dr. Thanat






Greeting Dr. Stephanie and her friends


The representative student gave the certificate

• Buddhism Fairly Accepts Women: The Lord Buddha was the first to allow fair treatment of women in Buddhism which at his time was not done in any other religion. Then he made his standpoint very clear to announce that men and women are equal in their potentiality to achieve spiritual enlightenment. A woman's spiritual achievement came from her own action, not through devotion to her husband. Buddhism both Indian social reform in an attempt to uplift women to share the responsibility as one of the four groups of Buddhists equally responsible for the growth or decline of Buddhism.
  

• Buddhism Accepts Nuns into the Sangka: Ven. Ananda was the monk who persuaded the Buddha to admit women into the order of the Sangka. Ordained Nuns were held with high esteem. The first Buddhist Nun was the Lord Buddha’s aunt and foster mother Maha Pajapati Gotami, the second was the Buddha’s former wife Rahula-Mata