Editing Nun (section)

=== Taiwan ===

The relatively active roles of Taiwanese nuns were noted by some studies. Researcher Charles Brewer Jones estimates that from 1951 to 1999, when the Buddhist Association of the ROC organized public ordination, female applicants outnumbered males by about three to one. He adds:

{{blockquote|All my informants in the areas of Taipei and Sanhsia considered nuns at least as respectable as monks, or even more so. [...] In contrast, however, Shiu-kuen Tsung found in Taipei county that female clergy were viewed with some suspicion by society. She reports that while outsiders did not necessarily regard their vocation as unworthy of respect, they still tended to view the nuns as social misfits.<ref>Charles Brewer Jones, ''Buddhism in Taiwan: Religion and the State, 1660–1990''; University of Hawaii Press, 1999; pp. 154–155</ref>}}

Wei-yi Cheng studied the Luminary (Hsiang Kuang 香光) order in southern Taiwan. Cheng reviewed earlier studies which suggest that Taiwan's [[Zhaijiao]] tradition has a history of more female participation, and that the economic growth and loosening of family restriction have allowed more women to become nuns. Based on studies of the Luminary order, Cheng concluded that the monastic order in Taiwan was still young and gave nuns more room for development, and more mobile believers helped the order.<ref>{{cite journal
|author=Cheng, Wei-yi
|title=Luminary Buddhist Nuns in Contemporary Taiwan: A Quiet Feminist Movement
|journal=Journal of Buddhist Ethics
|issue=V. 10 (2003)
|url=http://ccbs.ntu.edu.tw/FULLTEXT/JR-BE/jbe105259.htm
|access-date=2013-06-05
|archive-date=2016-03-04
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304191208/http://ccbs.ntu.edu.tw/FULLTEXT/JR-BE/jbe105259.htm
|url-status=live
}}</ref>