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Thaganapa turned livid and began to tremble.

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Chapter Two
Women of Buddhism

© Copyright 1991, 2017 by Timothy Conway, PhD

That amazingly insightful, compassionate Indian sage, Siddhartha Gautama (c.563-483 BCE), the Buddha, or “Awake One,” established a tremendously powerful new movement based on the complete eradication of desire and ignorance through a liberating path of virtue, meditation, and insight.  In setting down the guidelines for this movement, Gautama considerably improved the status of his female followers in comparison to the status of orthodox Hindu women of his day. 

Nalinaksha Dutt has pointed out that 1) the Buddha clearly emphasized that one must depend on one’s own acts in one’s spiritual process; hence, the Buddha undermined an idea pervasive in the Indian brahmanical society of that time that a son could help his parents reach heaven through his prayers—an idea which predictably led to the undervaluing of daughters; 2) the Buddha discarded the brahmanical rituals as irrelevant in his straight-forward spiritual approach—and such rituals had begun to discriminate against women, especially barren, unmarried, or widowed women; 3) the Buddha made no distinction between men or women regarding their capacity for realizing nibbāna/nirvāṇa (Pali/Sanskrit: the great “release” from the shackl