Dear Rahula,

thank you. We are really discussing about female monastic order, not isolated female seers, philosophers or prophets.

metta,
Yong Peng.

--- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, rahula_80 wrote:

In the Rig Veda, there are some women seers, eg. Ghosha, Lopamudra, etc. In the Upanisads, there were female philosophers like Maitreyi, Gargi etc