Role Of Women In Buddhism: An Analytical Study

Abstract

The growing impact and relevance of Buddhism in an international society have given upward shove to a bright and evolving movement, in particular in the West, loosely known as Socially Engaged Buddhism. Today many seem to Buddhism for a reply to one of the most necessary troubles of all time–eradicating discrimination towards women. There is a well-known settlement that Buddhism does no longer have a reformist agenda or an express feminist theory. This paper explores this problem from a Theravāda Buddhist point of view the usage of the scriptures as nicely as latest work by using Western students conceding that there are deep-seated patriarchal and even misogynistic factors mirrored in the ambivalence in the direction of girls in the Pāli Canon and bias in the socio-cultural and institutionalized practices that persist to date in Theravāda Buddhist countries. However, Buddha’s acceptance of a woman's monastic order and above all his unequivocal affirmation of their equality in mental and non-secular competencies in accomplishing the best possible desires absolutely set up a high-quality stance. This paper additionally contends that whilst social and felony reforms are essential, it is a meditation that in the end uproots the innate conditioning of each the oppressors and the oppressed as the Dhamma at its pristine and transformative core is genderless.