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Why Does a Woman Need to Become a Man in Order to Become a Buddha? Past Investigations, New Leads
Author Balkwill, Stephanie (著)
Source Religion Compass
Volumev.12 n.8
Date2018.08
Pages9
PublisherWiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
Publisher Url http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com
LocationWest Sussex, UK
Content type期刊論文=Journal Article
Language英文=English
AbstractThis paper puts forth a new interpretation of the problem of the ineligibility of the female body for Buddhahood as it is seen in the texts of the Mahāyāna tradition of Buddhism. Recognizing that advanced female practitioners in Mahāyāna sūtras both lecture their detractors on the emptiness of physical forms while simultaneously changing their female forms to male ones, this paper provides an interpretation of the available textual material that reads the actions of such female practitioners as consonant and not contradictory. In so doing, this paper offers an innovative reading of the famous story of the Dragon King's Daughter from the Lotus Sūtra, one that sees it in conversation with a lesser known text specifically on the topic of female-to-male sex change on the path to Buddhahood, the Sūtra on Transforming the Female Form.
Table of contentsAbstract 1
1. Paper 1
2. Why is the Female Body not Eligible for Buddhahood? 2
3. Teachers of Sex Change and the Teaching of Emptiness 4
4. A Practical Reading 7
Works Cited 8
ISSN17498171 (E)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1111/rec3.12270
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Created date2023.08.10
Modified date2023.08.10



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