How Buddhism views feminism

All beings are equal, men and women are equal.

Buddhism believes that everyone can become a Buddha and that the Buddha nature is the same. However, there are obvious differences between women's physiology and psychology and men's, and this difference will of course lead to differences in life, work, and practice, which is quite normal. Feminism should also face up to this difference with men, and there is no need to demand exactly the same.

For example, it is obvious that it is impossible for a soldier in a war to have a woman as the main force.

Buddhism does not have feminism, but Buddhism has a lot of respect for women. For example, Buddhism has many beliefs such as the Great Peacock Buddha Mother, Guanyin, and the Dragon Lady.

All beings are equal, and so are men and women.

It's just a matter of using a woman's status to ask for more benefits from a man! When it comes to taking sides with the "disadvantaged", women are really clever in their means. It is precisely women who want to get married the most, because marriage is a way for them to get rich.

Whether it is male rights or women's rights, it is a question of who is the boss, and feminism is not suitable for China's social conditions.

Buddhism refers to women as women, and the most commonly discussed example of the status of women is the Eight Honorifics.

According to the Eight Respects, women cannot be independent, they must rely on the men, they cannot live with the men, and they cannot live too far away from the men. It is necessary to invite the elders of the male congregation to sit down and give the Dharma and admonish the female congregation every half month, and the female congregation cannot be ordained directly among the nuns, but must pass the proof of the male congregation; Even though the bhikshunis have been ordained for 100 years, they still worship the newly ordained bhikshu men.

Women have no status in Buddhism, especially in Theravada regions such as Ceylon, Burma, and Thailand, where women are not even allowed to become bhikshunis, but only nuns who live a monastic life and cannot take ordination.

The female body has more obstacles in cultivation than the male body, and it is originally a karmic body that casts into a female body, and the bodhisattva will abandon the female body when he reaches a certain level of practice. In the previous life, there were many obstacles to doing bad careers, and in this life, I will be a woman and bear the pain of childbirth.

There is a slight difference, in terms of cultivation, the women are more difficult, but this just means that the women should work harder.

Manjushri: The male body has seven treasures, and the female body has five leaks.

What is the name of the Seven Treasures? A treasure of ambition marches fearlessly everywhere; Second, there is the treasure of the Lord, and he is good at acting and weighing; Third, there is the treasure of a family, and the good can make money and establish a business; Fourth, there is a treasure of peace, and the good can assist the king to support his relatives; Fifth, there is the treasure of wisdom, and goodness can decide right and wrong; Sixth, there is the treasure of Anbang, and the measures are from top to bottom; Seven qualitative treasures, good and virtuous, is the body of a man's seven treasures.

What are the five leaks? A leak cannot be the master of the body; The second leak cannot be the head of the family; The three leaks cannot be the master of the people; The four leaks cannot be the owner; The five leaks cannot be the holy master, they are the body of a woman's five leaks.

Whether it's a man or a woman, it's all physiognomy, it's a foreign object. The Buddha said that you can't see each other in person, that is to say, if you are attached to external objects and appearances, you can't recognize your own true nature and can't achieve clear vision, and you won't be able to achieve success in cultivating Buddhahood.

In some ways, women are inferior to men.

You guys settle it. My man doesn't understand.

Let's look at this sentence: Prajna is the mother of all Buddhas.

Clear enough, right?

In Buddhism, all beings are essentially equal.

But depending on the place, the karma is different, which causes individual differences.

As for the group of women and the group of men, in reality, there are differences, even between the female group, and even between the male group.

For those who already have the preconception of men and women, some sutras will tell them why women have all kinds of unsatisfactory things, and for those who have understood the equality of all beings, some sutras will break their stereotypes that women cannot become Buddhas.

In the Buddhist scriptures, there is also a story of the dragon girl's enlightenment, that is, the story of becoming a Buddha.

Some people may only cling to certain teachings of the Buddhist scriptures, but ignore the characteristics of the Buddhist scriptures and the teachings of the equality of all beings in the Buddhist scriptures, so they have the illusion that Buddhism looks down on women.

The most important thing is that the nature of all beings is the same, but because of the immeasurable habits of each other, the self-nature is obscured, which causes various differences in the status quo.

The key to learning Buddhism lies in the student's own consciousness and liberation, and has nothing to do with the gender of the student.

There is no Amitabha Buddha in the south.