Woman is better treated by Buddhism than by any other Oriental religion.
Sec.6.Buddhism as a Religion.
But what is the religious life of Buddhism?
Can there be a religion without a God?
And if Buddhism has no God, how can it have worship, prayer, devotion?
There is no doubt that it has all these.

We have seen that its _cultus_ is much like that of the Roman Catholic Church.

It differs from this church in having no secular priests, but only regulars; all its clergy are monks, taking the three vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience.

Their vows, however, are not irrevocable; they can relinquish the yellow robe, and return into the world, if they find they have mistaken their vocation.
The God of Buddhism is the Buddha himself, the deified man, who has become an infinite being by entering Nirvana.

To him prayer is addressed, and it is so natural for man to pray, that no theory can prevent him from doing it.