In ancient Buddhism codes and records, there are , admittedly, many expressions of discrimination against women from gender ethics’ view of point, which for more than two thousands years, cause many obstacles for female Buddhists to fulfill a Buddhist’s life both in India territory and the other Buddhism influenced areas. For two thousand years, appearing in a few Buddhist sutras, some codes of practice alleged discrimination against female Buddhists, were branded with holly “Buddha’s saying” and thus, had never been suspected, not to speak of being abolished. Consequently, the circumstances of female Buddhists being discriminated and even insulted, have not been completed eliminated yet.Therefore it’s essential review the Eight Respects, Five Obstacles and Eighty-four Statuses concerning viewpoints towards female in Buddhist sutras. Through the necessary, careful and serious examination and distinguishing, we make a trial to find out which case is the actual state of affairs: -- Buddha’s perception; -- or it’s just the representation of profound mercy of sramana community dominated by male especially the elder sramana, based on deep understanding Buddha’s holy words, to delicately protect the female Buddhists in such serious gender discrimination ethics environments under strict caste system; -- or those codes of practice are male sramana’s bending of Buddha’s holy words to cater for the deep-rooted corrupt tradition of gender discriminate towards females. Facing these doubts and to give a clear answer, we think it’s essential to make some objective analyses of some key points of gender ethics and set forth the era veining of the combination between Buddhism sutras and Buddhism history.
