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| Gender Equity in a Mahayana Sutra: The Gaṇḍavyūha's Enlightened Goddesses | ||
| 作者 | Langberg, Hillary (著) |
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| 出處題名 | The Eastern Buddhist: Third Series |
| 卷期 | v.1 n.1 Third series |
| 出版日期 | 2021 |
| 頁次 | 43 - 87 |
| 出版者 | The Eastern Buddhist Society |
| 出版者網址 | https://ebs.otani.ac.jp/ |
| 出版地 | 京都, 日本 [Kyoto, Japan] |
| 資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 摘要 | Mahayana sutras, largely composed in the first half of the first millennium CE, are situated within the normative gender hierarchies of the ancient cultures of South Asia. Therefore, for the most part, they do not espouse gender equity. This vast textual corpus has constituted and informed the teachings and praxis of Buddhism across Asia both historically and today, inclusive of the fairly recent entrance of Zen and Tibetan traditions in the West. Such texts include the highly revered Aṣtasāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā Sutra, which has itself long been personified as a goddess who con- tinues to be honored in both Eastern and Western Buddhist traditions. As explored further below, Mahayana sutras made certain doctrinal concessions to female practitio- ners who aspired to take up the bodhisattva vow, particularly when we compare female access to the path toward buddhahood in Mahayana versus mainstream texts. None- theless, as numerous scholars have noted, Mahayana sutras appear to generally prohibit female devotees from advancing to the highest levels of bodhisattvahood until they have been reborn as male. The present article focuses on a notable exception among the numerous Mahayana sutras disseminated and translated into Chinese during the middle period of Indian Buddhism (ca. 0–600 CE): the Gandavyūha Sutra. I suggest that this text puts female bodhisattvas on an equal footing with most of its advanced and enlightened male bodhisattvas. I also assert that there is an urgency to revisit this text as evidence of a shift in the attitudes of Mahayana Buddhist authors toward the representation of female bodhisattva enlightenment, particularly because issues of soteriological equity had—and continue to have—a gendered impact on Buddhist audiences. |
| ISSN | 24366366 (P) |
| 點閱次數 | 151 |
| 建檔日期 | 2021.08.02 |
| 更新日期 | 2022.02.25 |
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