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guide the society in the fields of religion and philosophy. Women religious
missionaries had gone to foreign countries to propagate, for example
Sangamitra sister of Asoka the great had gone to Cylon to spread
Buddhist religion. Shubha, Anupama and Sumedha are the another
examples.
54 Highly educated women who were doing teaching work were
known as Up膩dhy膩ya. Shilabhattarika, prabhudevi and vijayanka etc, were
55 the great women poets of this period. These examples show that women
also got a lot of opportunities for self development among the Buddhist.
We have already seen that opportunities for education were limited only
to the higher classes in the Br膩hma峁嘺s mode of Education. Buddhism
tried to preach education in lower classes also, especially among women.
The art of writing had advanced in the Buddhist period, but it had
not reached the masses properly since the education was mainly oral as it
was during the vedic age. In vih膩ras and monastic schools hetu vidyal
(inductive method) discussion and argumentation were adopted. The
followers of different-religions and sects held occasional discussions and
the student were trained through these debates.
Educational institutions of Buddhist period attracted students and
scholars from distant parts of the world such as China, Srilanka, Tibet and
other countries. The foreign students who came here studies Indian