LifeFuel Limitations on women's spiritual attainment in Buddhism

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Limitations on women's spiritual attainment in BuddhismEdit​

According to Bernard Faure, "Like most clerical discourses, Buddhism is indeed relentlessly misogynist, but as far as misogynist discourses go, it is one of the most flexible and open to multiplicity and contradiction."[54]

In the Buddhist tradition, positions of apparently worldly power are often a reflection of the spiritual achievements of the individual. For example, gods live in higher realms than human beings and therefore have a certain level of spiritual attainment. Cakravartins and Buddhas are also more spiritually advanced than ordinary human beings. However, as the Taiwanese nun Heng-Ching Shih states, women in Buddhism are said to have five obstacles, including being incapable of becoming a Brahma King, Sakra, King Mara, Cakravartin or Buddha.[52] This is based on the statement of Gautama Buddha in the Bahudhātuka-sutta of the Majjhima Nikaya in the Pali Canon that it is impossible that a woman should be "the perfectly rightfully Enlightened One", "the Universal Monarch", "the King of Gods", "the King of Death" or "Brahmaa".[55]

Women and BuddhahoodEdit​

Although early Buddhist texts such as the Cullavagga section of the Vinaya Pitaka of the Pali Canon contain statements from Gautama Buddha, speaking to the fact that a woman can attain enlightenment,[58] it is also clearly stated in the Bahudhātuka-sutta that there could never be a female Buddha.

 

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Buddhism (old school, not this new liberalized nonsense) was incredibly based. Though women were allowed to join the order as nuns, they were kept separate from and subservient to the monks. The highest ranking nun ranked below every single monk.

 

[Deleted member 24297]

Buddhism (old school, not this new liberalized nonsense) was incredibly based. Though women were allowed to join the order as nuns, they were kept separate from and subservient to the monks. The highest ranking nun ranked below every single monk.

Based Therevadacel

 

[Sneepysqar]

"Like most clerical discourses, Buddhism is indeed relentlessly misogynist"

Almost as if the inferiority of women is basic and obvious truth to completely different cultures all around the world

 

[Emba]

Shows me that Buddhism is just as full of shit as any other religions.

It's like saying a female dog isn't a real dog. Sure it's usually LESS of a dog, but it's still a dog.

It has the taint of the (proto) jew all over it. It's like a meme time bomb!

 

[Of Manlets and Men]

No one is more ignorant about Buddhism than the white libtards who claim to be Buddhist and think it's nothing more than hippie veganism and spouting meaningless feminist platitudes.

Real Buddhists hate those freaks, and with good reason. (the idea that Buddhists never hate is another Western libtarded myth)