ABSTRACT
This chapter and the next will analyze the results of my fieldwork, which I conducted in Taiwan and Sri Lanka from November 2001 to May 2002, through the methods of interview and questionnaire survey. Most of the research subjects were introduced to me through their associates or other informants. The questions that I asked were mostly based on the issues raised in Western feminist critiques on Buddhism. Though I had gone into the fieldwork with a set of questions and hypotheses, the questions and the analysis were modified throughout the research period as the result of fieldwork findings.
