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Thailand’s rebel female monk on fighting sexism in Buddhism
Bhikkhuni Dhammananda, 75, helped ordain eight women monks in 2014, only for Thailand’s ruling Buddhist body to prohibit all future female ordinations. But she still find ways to battle her religion’s male monopoly.
She continues to ordain female Buddhist novices – about 800 now – and her own ordination in Sri Lanka has inspired almost 300 other female monks to do the same