New Delhi, India April 20 -- A growing number of women are taking to Buddhism in India like in the West where two-thirds of the practitioners of the faith are women, Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo, the first Tibetan Buddhist woman master, said.
"Many young girls in Himachal Pradesh are opting to study Buddhism and become nuns, shunning the traditional role of housewives. After all, being a housewife means cooking, cleaning, looking after babies and playing a subservient role to men," Palmo, who was among the first lot of western woman to be ordained as Buddhist nuns, told IANS in an interview.
