Untying the Knots in Buddhism
author: Alex Wayman
edition: 1997, Motilal Banarsidass Publishers Pvt. Ltd.
pages: 631
ISBN-10: 8120813219
ISBN-13: 9788120813212
Topic: Buddhism
The Position of Women in Buddhism
This chapter describes The Position of Women in Buddhism located on page 369 in the book Untying the Knots in Buddhism. These essays deal with Buddhist Heroes such as Sakyamuni, Nagarjuna; Doctrine such as topics on suffering, karma, and voidness; Practice such as diet, purification and visualisations; and further theories of no-self, nescience and omniscience, etc. This chapter is part "Section IV, Buddhist Practices"
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Buddhist Monastic Discipline [by Jotiya Dhirasekera]
Altekar describes the position of woman in India at the time as follow: 'The prohibition of upanayana amounted to spiritual disenfranchisement of women and produced a disastrous effect upon their general position in society. It reduced them to the status of tudras... What, however, did infinite harm to women was the theory that they were ineligible for them (Vedic sacrifices) because they were of the status of the tudras....
Read full contents: Chapter XIII - Women and the Religious Order of the Buddha
Dhammapada (Illustrated) [by Ven. Weagoda Sarada Maha Thero]
The Buddha has a unique place in world s religions, as a spiritual leader who was keenly concerned with providing privileges to women. Women s position in Buddhism is unique. The Buddha gave women full freedom to participate in a religious life. The Buddha was the first religious teacher who had given this religious freedom to women. Before the Buddha, women s duty had been restricted to the kitchen; women were not even allowed to enter any temple or to recite anything religious....
Read full contents: Verse 331-333 - The Story of Mara
Banner of the Arahants [by Bhikkhu Khantipalo]
IX, 3. (* 2) See, „Brahmanism, Buddhism and Hinduism“, Wheel 150-151 B.P.S....
Read full contents: Chapter 7 - Bhikkhunis And Buddhist Nuns Now
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[Untying the Knots in Buddhism: index]
[About the Author (Alex Wayman)]
[Foreword]
[Preface]
[Introduction]