(December 16, 2013 at 9:53 am)Chad32 Wrote:(December 16, 2013 at 2:59 am)rasetsu Wrote: For what it's worth, I don't like Buddhism, though individual Buddhists I'm more open to accepting. Western Buddhism is the primary source of the myth of the "innocent Buddhist." Buddhists in the East can be quite offensive.
Buddhists are supposed to be the cool, spiritual, peaceful people. Though I read somewhere on here that some of them believe women can't reach enlightenment. That kind of damages my perspective of them.
Buddhism is a large set of traditions, so you can likely find anything under the sun under its umbrella. That being said, Siddhartha originally didn't consider women to be suitable vessels for enlightenment, and had to be persuaded to include them in the community of Buddhists (the Sangha). However, he was persuaded and did include them, though if the differing rules for monks and nuns are any indication, they were never admitted as equals.
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