{"id":2101,"date":"2017-02-24T07:00:05","date_gmt":"2017-02-24T06:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.samita.be\/?p=2101"},"modified":"2017-02-24T20:36:13","modified_gmt":"2017-02-24T19:36:13","slug":"can-a-woman-become-a-buddha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samita.be\/en\/2017\/02\/24\/can-a-woman-become-a-buddha\/","title":{"rendered":"Can a Woman Become a Buddha?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"There are a few passages in the Pali canon talking about different inabilities of women. These include being a Perfectly Enlightened Buddha, being a Universal Wheel-turning Monarch, being the King of Gods (Sakka), the King of Death (M\u0101ra) or Brahma. These positions, so it says, can only be taken by a man. Is this what the Buddha taught?<\/p>\n

Bhikkhu An\u0101layo discusses this question in his article “The Bahudh\u0101tuka-sutta and its Parallels. On Women\u2019s Inabilities”<\/em> by comparing this sutta of the Pali canon (MN 115) with it’s\u00a0Madhyama-\u0101gama<\/em> parallel (and other parallels) in which the relevant passage is lacking.<\/p>\n

And what is the conclusion he comes up with?\u2014“In sum, since an accidental loss or an intentional omission of an exposition on the inabilities of women in the Madhyama-\u0101gama discourse seems improbable, the most straightforward conclusion would be that the theme of women\u2019s inability is a later addition to the exposition on impossibilities in the different versions of the Discourse on Many Elements. Thus in this respect the Madhyama-\u0101gama version quite probably testifies to an early stage, when the theme of what women cannot achieve had not yet become part of the discourse.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Thus, there is no reason to assume that a woman should not be able to attain full awakening merely by her own effort, without a teacher. This is not an easy task, but it doesn’t depend on gender. And also, a woman can become a great teacher, or rather the greatest of teachers, just as “our” Buddha!<\/p>\n

Read Bhikkhu An\u0101layo’s article here:\u00a0https:\/\/www.buddhismuskunde.uni-hamburg.de\/pdf\/5-personen\/analayo\/bahudhatuka.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n

(Maria Backes)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are a few passages in the Pali canon talking about different inabilities of women. These include being a Perfectly Enlightened Buddha, being a Universal Wheel-turning Monarch, being the King of Gods (Sakka), the King of Death (M\u0101ra) or Brahma….
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