 | Paul Ambroise Bigandet - 1866 - 568 pages
...Budhisui have produced a striking, auJ to the lover of true civilization, i most interesting re&ult, viz : the almost complete equality of the condition of women, with that of men. la those countries, women are not miserably lowed by the children of the noblest families ; next came... | |
 | Archibald Ross Colquhoun, Holt Samuel Hallett, Terrien de Lacouperie - 1885 - 482 pages
...just appreciation of the people, fully testifies to the high position that women hold. He says : " In Burmah and Siam the doctrines of Buddhism have...viz. the almost complete equality of the condition of the women with that of the men. In these countries, women are not so universally confined in the interior... | |
 | Father Sangermano - 1893 - 360 pages
...produced a striking, and to the lover of true civilisation a most interesting, result, viz., established the almost complete equality of the condition of .women with that of men. In those countries women are not miserably confined in the interior of their houses, without the remotest... | |
 | Augustus Henry Keane - 1899 - 632 pages
...observer quotes Bishop Bigandet, a forty years' resident amongst the natives, to the effect that " in Burmah and Siam the doctrines of Buddhism have...lover of true civilization a most interesting result — the almost complete equality of the condition of the women with that of the men. In these countries... | |
 | 632 pages
...observer quotes Bishop Bigandet, a forty years' resident amongst the natives, to the effect that " in Burmah and Siam the doctrines of Buddhism have...lover of true civilization a most interesting result — the almost complete equality of the condition of the women with that of the men. In these countries... | |
 | 636 pages
...observer quotes Bishop Bigandet, a forty years' resident amongst the natives, to the effect that " in Burmah and Siam the doctrines of Buddhism have...lover of true civilization a most interesting result — the almost complete equality of the condition of the women with that of the men. In these countries... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1857 - 730 pages
...favourable testimony to the influences of Buddhism on the condition of women. Father Bigandet says:— ' In Burmah and Siam the doctrines of Buddhism have...the lover of true civilization a most interesting resultviz., the almost complete equality of the condition of women with that of men. In these countries,... | |
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In these countries, women are not so universally confined in the interior of their houses, without the remotest chance of ever appearing in public. They are seen circulating freely in the streets ; they preside at the comptoir, and hold an almost exclusive... 