Because they cannot enter the sangha, Theravda Buddhist women in Thailand do not have access to highreligious status and to official ritual roles, expertise and authority. This essay invites you to examine how womenwho want to live a religious life have coped with this situation. Have Thai women simply accepted the limitationsplaced upon them or have they found ways to circumvent, to challenge or, even, to surmount them? If so, whatkind of religious and ritualstrategies have they recently deployed to participate and contribute more fully to theirtradition? While developing your response, remember to discuss the advantages and disadvantages of themethods used by both mae chis who now live in convents and those who have joined Bhikkhuni Dhammanandaseffort to revive the Theravda Order of nuns in Thailand.
You can only use the two sources that I have attached to this order, as there can’t be any outside sources for this assignment. Please include page numbers in your citations, and if you cite from the Lecture Notes, please cite in this format (Campion 2021, Lecture 10b) and indicate which lecture it was. Please use the author-date system. In the body of your text, you can put the last name of the author,the year and the page number in parentheses (Bibbs 2010, 75). If you use this system, do not use footnotes.
