Investigating exactly what the buddha had to say on the subject of females
International Journal of Development Research
Investigating exactly what the buddha had to say on the subject of females
Received 16th January, 2023; Received in revised form 30th January, 2023; Accepted 06th February, 2023; Published online 25th February, 2023
Copyright©2023, Nguyen Thi Ngoc Huong et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
The scriptures provide evidence of the superiority generated for men through the words and teachings of the Buddha, and they place women in a position of helplessness as a result of this superiority. On the other hand, we have heard thousands of times through the sūtras that Buddha Shakyamuni asserted that within every living being there is a seed of a Buddha who will become, equal beings including everything from dinosaurs to tiny creatures. This assertion was made through the sūtras. If you believe what is written in the sutras, then you will understand that the Buddha excluded women from his teachings because he regarded them as unequal creatures. How can we explain the apparent contradiction between one side, which is the Buddha’s expansive, profound, and extremely open view of sentient beings, and the other side, which is the amount of data that can be gathered from the scriptures in the Buddha’s previous lives that have been attributed to the Buddha saying and doing things that are in opposition to feminism? The only method to overcome contradictions and bring the truth to light is to conduct a point-by-point logical analysis of the words and dharmas involved.