Neither Buddhism, a practice of transforming oneself with
love, compassion, and wisdom, nor the Buddha, an ideal
description of man enjoying life without harming oneself or
others, helped me appeal to those monks who had the author-
ity to imprison me. I came to know deeply that these monks
did not truly understand that Buddhism is about the practice of
love, compassion, and wisdom, even though they all said that
they understood.
In this article, the author describes her experiences as a mendicant nun (both as thialshin and bhikkhuni), facing discrimination against women in Burma Buddhist community. While giving an insight into the everyday life of a monastic, she highlights the deeply entrenched gender biases and the struggle for equal rights within the Burmese Buddhist monastic system.