thank you for your answer.
I am wondering, how can we explain this? If there’s equality between the genders so that men and women have the same type of mind, statistics should imply that roughly half of past Buddhas should have been female.
I do not know how many past Buddhas there are, but all else being equal, the probability of all of them being male just by chance is vanishingly small: say for 10 past Buddhas to have been all male it would be 1 in 1024.
So how can we explain this? Perhaps because of different social conditions between men and women, which made it harder for the latter to practice? Or perhaps EBT stories are not to be taken literally as historical accounts, but just as edifying stories (for the time when they were told)?
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