GENDER AND WOMEN EMPOWERMENT AS FEMALE BUDDHISTS BASED ON BUDDHISM PERSPECTIVES
Keywords:
Gender, Women Empowerment, Female BuddhistsAbstract
Woman status in Buddhism was well-reaccepted as the female Buddhists. Women are not more inferior than men in the role of religious practices in anyway. Furthermore, the roles of supporting and practicing the Buddha?s teachings, in fact, female Buddhists help to foster and care Buddhism from the Buddha?s lifetime to today. Because Buddhism is open to women in general; they have equality in many ways of practicing. Women must not be framed in any roles; they are able to act as the missionary; it does not differ from other men and women in terms of the teachings. All these harmonies are within the context of Indian society under Brahmanism beliefs. But in Buddhism, Gautama Buddha, and his disciples did not agree with those Brahmanism concepts. Buddhism provides opportunities for women to participate in religious freedom; therefore, this leads the disciples to achieve the ultimate goal of the Buddha?s teaching as equality.
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