Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
2010
Disciplines
Buddhist Studies | Religion | Religious Thought, Theology and Philosophy of Religion
Abstract
The religious traditions that help shape society’s attitudes toward women and also women’s attitudes toward themselves often send mixed messages. The world’s major religions—Buddhism, Hinduism, Christianity, Judaism, and Islam—assert that women and men have equal potential, whether for liberation or in the sight of a higher being, but social realities reveal a stark contradiction between rhetoric and reality. Women continue to lack equal representation in social, political, and religious institutions. For many, the failure of the world’s religions to live up to their professed ideals not only exposes their lack of social responsiveness to the needs of human society but is also hypocritical.
Digital USD Citation
Tsomo, Karma Lekshe PhD, "Gender Equity and Human Rights" (2010). Theology and Religious Studies: Faculty Scholarship. 21.
https://digital.sandiego.edu/thrs-faculty/21
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Buddhist Studies Commons, Religious Thought, Theology and Philosophy of Religion Commons
Notes
Table of Contents
Preface | ix
Thea Mohr and Jampa Tsedroen
Abbreviations | xiii
Female Ordination in Buddhism:
Looking into a Crystal Ball, Making a Future | 1
Janet Gyatso
The Vinaya Between History and Modernity:
Some General Reflections | 23
Jens-Uwe Hartmann
Sects and Sectarianism
The Origin of the Three Existing Vinaya Lineages: Theravāda, Dharmaguptaka, and Mūlasarvāstivāda | 29
Bhikkhu Sujato
Some Remarks on the Status of Nuns and Laywomen in Early Buddhism | 39
Gisela Krey
Women's Renunciation in Early Buddhism:
The Four Assemblies and the Foundation of the Order of Nuns | 65
Anālayo
The Revival of Bhikkhunī Ordination in the Theravāda Tradition | 99
Bhikkhu Bodhi
The Eight Garudhammas | 143
Ute Hüsken
A Need to Take a Fresh Look at Popular Interpretations of the Tripiṭaka:
Theravāda Context in Thailand | 149
Dhammananda Bhikkhunī
A Lamp of Vinaya Statements:
A Concise Summary of Bhikṣuṇī Ordination | 161
Tashi Tsering
A Tibetan Precedent for Multi-Tradition Ordination | 183
Thubten Chodron
A "Flawless" Ordination:
Some Narratives of Nuns' Ordinations in the Mūlasarvāstivāda Vinaya | 195
Damchö Diana Finnegan
Buddhist Women's Role in the Saṅgha | 207
Lobsang Dechen
Preserving Endangered Ordination Traditions in the Sakya School | 211
David Jackson
Presuppositions for a Valid Ordination with Respect to the Restoration of the Bhikṣuṇī Ordination in the Mūlasarvāstivāda Tradition | 217
Petra Kieffer-Pülz
Creating Nuns Out of Thin Air:
Problems and Possible Solutions concerning the Ordination of Nuns according to the Tibetan Monastic Code | 227
Shayne Clarke
Bhikṣuṇī Ordination:
Lineages and Procedures as Instruments of Power | 239
Jan-Ulrich Sobisch
Human Rights and the Status of Women in Buddhism | 253
His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama
Gender Equity and Human Rights | 281
Karma Lekshe Tsomo
Appendix | 291
Glossary | 305
Bibliography | 309
About the Contributors | 325
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Original publication information:
"Gender Equity and Human Rights." In Thea Mohr & Jampa Tsedroen (Eds), Dignity and Discipline: Reviving Full Ordination for Buddhist Nuns. Boston: Wisdom Publications, 2010, pp. 281-290.