clerical vows are useful pieces of social technology that hedge against changes in context and taste.
There are some buddhist monastic institutions in the west though, this is not completely the case?
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True, but they’re of marginal significance (for non-ethnic Western Buddhists) both numerically and in terms of influence.
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The model is basically charging for retreats
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Yes; but very few Buddhist teachers can gather enough students and charge them enough for this to provide them with full-time support.
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