Suniti Bhikkuni on caste, gender and Buddhism

Bhante Suniti Bhikkuni, founder of India's first order of female monks, discusses the dilemmas of associating with men and identifying with Navayana Buddhism. She explores the controversies in the Buddhist community, struggles of female ordination, and the influence of Mahayana Buddhism. They also discuss the importance of identifying as Buddhist, the link between gender binary and sexual harassment, precepts in Buddhism, feminism, the Me Too movement, and discrimination faced by bikkhunis in Thailand.