Grossmont Cuyamaca Community College Buddha and Women Discussion
Please discuss the following prompt: The Buddha was known to have said that if women had been allowed into the Sangha from the start, the impact of the Dharma would have only lasted half as long. What do you think he meant by this? Do you think the Buddha was against women, or were there other factors that the Buddha was addressing?. The essay should be approximately 500 words (about 2 pages double spaced).use at least two different peer reviewed sources to help substantiate your points. One of the sources should come from one of the assigned readings, and I would like at least one other source to come from outside our course texts. you must use the Chicago Manual of Style (CMS or Chicago Style).
you should use one of the sources and one outside source:
Hanh, Thich Nhat, The Heart of the Buddha’s Teaching, Parallax Press, 1998. ISBN 978-0-767-90369-1
Page 94-104
Ohnuma, Reiko. “Woman, Bodhisattva, and Buddha”. In Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, Vol. 17, No. 1 (Spring, 2001), pp. 63-83.
