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Stämmer bra förutom angående theravada. Det är ett missförstånd. I Pali canon nämns kvinnliga arahanter. Men jag har hört detta jag med. Varför det uppstått, främst i Thailand (i Sri Lanka har de annan uppfattning) vet jag inte. Jag antar att det har att göra med att nunneorden dog ut i Thailand.Den tredje Buddhan antar jag är Maitreya. Enligt Pali canon säger Buddha att det funnits många buddhor före honom. Finns i Digha Nikaya men jag har inte riktigt tid att slå upp det och göra en djupare utläggning om det just nu.
Angående kvinnliga arahanter:
Women and arahantship: The Buddha placed women on a par with men in the capacity of developing the mind to the highest level.. A few years after the inauguration of the Order of monks, an Order of nuns, too, was set up with Mahapajapati Gotami, the Buddha's foster-mother, as the first recruit. The Vinaya Pitaka contains a section of special rules laid down for the guidance of bhikkhunis. As is obvious, the purpose of the religious life is to attain arahantship. Women, like men, entered the Order in order to realise this state. Nowhere in Buddhist literature do we come across statements denouncing the capacity of women to develop their minds, and in this respect no distinction is shown between men and women. The Therīgāthā is full of instances of therīs who had attained arahantship (e. g., Thig. pp. 126, 129, 131 etc.). Mara once attempted to dissuade Somā, a therī, from attaining arahantship saying that she with little brains could not aspire to attain a noble state attained by sages with high mental powers. Soma's reply was that if the mind is properly cultivated so as to develop true know-ledge by which one understands the real state of things, womanhood is no barrier to the attainment of arahantship (Thig. 129). Mrs. Rhys Davids in the Introduction (p. xxiv) to her translation of the Therīgāthā states that the instances of therīs declaring their attainment of arahantship are more in the Therīgāthā than of monks doing so in the Theragāthā.
'Are women, Lord, capable--when they
have gone forth from the household
life and entered the homeless state,
under the doctrine and discipline
proclaimed by the Blessed One--are
they capable of realising the fruit of
conversion, or of the second Path, or
of the third Path, or of Arahatship?'
'They are capable, Ânanda.'
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Senast redigerad av Golachab 2014-02-20 kl. 18:21.
Senast redigerad av Golachab 2014-02-20 kl. 18:21.
