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Was the Buddha misogynistic?
Buddha said women can be Enlightened.
In an unprecedented move for the times, Buddha allowed women to ordain as Buddhist wanderers.
Buddha added numerous rules to Vinaya to protect women practitioners ...
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What is a pandaka?
We can start with the PTS dictionary. Paṇḍaka "a eunuch, weakling". This definition is repeated in Monier-Williams sv paṇḍa. As far as the early Buddhist texts, they are clearly not to be ordained, ...
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How is a Dalai Lama chosen? And can it be a woman?
The reincarnation of a lama isn't chosen or elected. He or she is found.
Man or woman
Historically the Dalai Lama has always been a man, but it has been my understanding that there is no rule that ...
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Male & Female - Is gender an illusion?
If we are going to go that far then everything but the present moment mental and physical phenomena of our individual experience is an illusion.
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Can the Buddha ever be a woman?
MN 115 (Bahudhātuka Sutta) does not state a woman cannot be an arahant (fully enlightened being). MN 115 (Bahudhātuka Sutta) only states a woman cannot be the Sammasambuddha.
There is only one ...
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Which Buddhist traditions have no gender divisions at all
Our branch of Rinzai Zen has no gender division other than that we segregate by sex when bunking up for sesshin. I can’t think of too many Buddhist communities in the US that would even consider that,...
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Accepted
Which Buddhist traditions have no gender divisions at all
Are you asking about a tradition or a community? If the latter, there are many. Most of the "insight meditation" communities, e.g. IRC, Spirit Rock, IMS etc in the US are sex- unsegregated. ...
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Theravada perspective on transgender people
In order to serve as a reference for any trans/queer/non-binary and gender non-conforming folks on the Bodhisattva path here, looking to see how Buddhism interacts with their gender identity, it would ...
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Can the Buddha ever be a woman?
No, it is not true. According to the Lotus Sutra, women can attain Buddhahood in this lifetime. This sutra being the only sutra that says this accounts for its popularity among women over the ...
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How to view people with metta and karuna?
Metta is wishing for all beings to be happy and be at ease.
Looking at women as mothers is not metta.
But I can find a reverse-mother reference for metta below.
The metta practitioner should feel ...
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Vajra Posture vs Lotus Posture -- the same or male vs female?
There is both no gender difference in the Lotus Posture and Vajra Posture or any other difference whatsoever as far as I'm aware. These are interchangeable terms for the same posture - the former has ...
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Theravada perspective on transgender people
Buddhism is not identitarian.
If transgender people follow the five precepts (which includes committed sexual relationship), Buddhism says this is wholesome & minimizes harm.
If transgender ...
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Can the Buddha ever be a woman?
Neither a man nor a woman can become a Buddha. Only a Bodhisattva having completed the necessary parami can become a Buddha. In that last life of the Bodhisattva, the Bodhisattva takes on a masculine ...
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What is a pandaka?
That usually gets translated as hermaphrodite, it looks like it means more generally someone who isn't conforming to the ordinary gender role.
The situation probably refers to ordination. By some ...
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What is a pandaka?
Paṇḍaka is a less clear cut case, all references have a central theme: some form of deficiency in male sexual reproductive capacity or reproductive desire
The Pali literature makes reference to five ...
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Gender : Is it truly what it seems?
According to the Abhidhamma gender distinction is there in every part of the corporeal structure. In Buddhism illusion is used if the meaning breaks down at a lower level of abstraction, but in this ...
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Was the Buddha misogynistic?
Here is the root/etymology of the word misogyny
misogyny (n.)
1650s, from Modern Latin misogynia, from Greek misogynia, from misogynes "woman-hater," from miso- (see miso-) + gyne "woman".
And:
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How to view people with metta and karuna?
Viewing "women" as "mothers"
Viewing "women" as "mothers" appeared in Bhāradvājasutta which is not taught about metta, but that sutta was teaching about ordained life keeping (5 saṃvaya):
“...
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How to view people with metta and karuna?
Nyom Chris,
Like Nyom Vorapol (Bonn) pointed out helpfully, it was for the Buddha very important, that they get neither confused in regard of gratitude and deeds of others (in ways like "there is ...
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How is a Dalai Lama chosen? And can it be a woman?
If someone is picked, can he refute?
Someone was picked (found) when very young. This Dalai Lama Biography says,
After several months of searching for a successor to the 13th Dalai Lama and ...
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Male & Female - Is gender an illusion?
I would recommend reading it fully and answering the part that is not complicated to you.
Alright, I'll try to.
Birth of gender according to Buddhism
I think the Aggañña Sutta is a story about ...
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Male & Female - Is gender an illusion?
Male & Female - Is gender an illusion?
Gender is temporal and decaying. (A Comprehensive Manual of Abhidhamma > Occurrence of Material Phenomena, p255 onwards)
According to Buddhism & ...
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What is a pandaka?
http://jocbs.org/index.php/jocbs/article/view/28
Semen, Viagra and Pandaka: Ancient Endocrinology and Modern Day Discrimination*
Paisarn Likhitpreechakul
Abstract
In a Vinaya passage, the Buddha ...
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