Timeline for What titles apply to non-monastic/lay Buddhists? (upasaka/upasika savaka/sravaka)
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| Feb 6, 2018 at 3:28 | comment | added | Bonn | I am a non-binary bi-romantic asexual. I used a male title when I ordained. Because the very girlish person, such as person who go around to fuck with the other male monastic members in vinaya-pitaka, was denied to ordain in buddhism. They can be just a lay. In commentary, some kind of girlish people can ordain but some can not. It depend on their physical body. 84000.org/tipitaka/pitaka_item/… | |
| Jan 22, 2018 at 19:52 | vote | accept | jerclarke | ||
| Jan 20, 2018 at 13:41 | comment | added | jerclarke | @SamanaJohann thank you for the link to suttacentral, I found compassionate consideration of trans people’s role in Buddhism quickly there. I guess you are referring to the fact that I am effectively identifying as a pandaka which seems about right in fact (though it can apply both for psychological and physiological reasons it seems). To go forth I would need to find a monastic order reformist enough to welcome pandakas or I wouldn’t want to join. | |
| Jan 20, 2018 at 4:45 | comment | added | Samana Johann | You might find discourse.suttacentral.net interesting, since they make their livelihoods on gender issues. As for the rest, no answer can be given to one not able to be straight and very pride. As for eventually able to become monk, very important and relevant. While mental confusing could be healed stronger manifestations can not. | |
| Jan 20, 2018 at 2:24 | comment | added | ChrisW♦ | People are welcome to discuss gender in one of the chat rooms or elsewhere. | |
| Jan 20, 2018 at 2:13 | answer | added | ChrisW♦ | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jan 20, 2018 at 1:57 | comment | added | jerclarke | Samana here is the relevant Wikipedia article: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genderqueer So that you know, "mental confused" as a description of transgender people is not acceptable and considered very rude. The question I believe you are trying to ask is whether I am intersex (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersex) or not, to which my answer is that it isn't relevant because my gender identity is what is important, not my genitalia. | |
| Jan 20, 2018 at 0:30 | comment | added | Samana Johann | What is meant by "non-binary gender", physical or just mental confused? | |
| Jan 19, 2018 at 23:22 | comment | added | jerclarke | Thanks Chris. Seems like my question and answer are safe but please let me know if I can do better :) | |
| Jan 19, 2018 at 23:15 | comment | added | ChrisW♦ | Welcome and Bienvenue to the site. You may like to read that this site has a few non-standard policies, which are summarised and indexed here. | |
| Jan 19, 2018 at 22:45 | answer | added | jerclarke | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jan 19, 2018 at 22:45 | answer | added | user5056 | timeline score: 4 | |
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| Jan 19, 2018 at 22:28 | history | asked | jerclarke | CC BY-SA 3.0 |