Can queers be ordaed as Buddhist monks? The qutn sparked tense bat on social media when Pataradanai Setsuwan, a well-known openly gay celebry, entered the monkhood late last month.
Contents:
- THE GAY PRECEPT: HOW BUDDHISM VIEWS HOMOSEXUALY
- JAPAN HAS A BUDDHIST MONK FIGHTG FOR GAY RIGHTS?
- BUDDHIST AND GAY?
THE GAY PRECEPT: HOW BUDDHISM VIEWS HOMOSEXUALY
Can queers be ordaed as Buddhist monks? The qutn sparked tense bat on social media when Pataradanai Setsuwan, a well-known openly gay celebry, entered the monkhood late last month. * buddhist monk gay *
Although there is no general nsens wh regard to sexual orientatn and genr inty wh Buddhism, overall the third precept is most often referenced when discsg gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr and queer issu.
Yet a 1997 prs nference he mented that “om a Buddhist pot of view [lbian and gay sex] is generally nsired sexual misnduct. Is homosexualy forbidn Buddhism?
JAPAN HAS A BUDDHIST MONK FIGHTG FOR GAY RIGHTS?
A gay Buddhist monk talks about his sexualy and relign. * buddhist monk gay *
So I believe this way a nsentg, lovg homosexual act isn’t any way agast Gtama Buddha’s teachgs.
In fact, Dalai Lama has e out (exce the pun) and said that om a Buddhist pot of view lbian and gay sex is nsired sexual misnduct. So answer to the two qutns posed at the begng of this piece, I believe homosexualy should not be forbidn Buddhism, and homosexuals should not be ma to feel guilty for lovg someone of the same sex. I also believe homosexualy should not be regard as sexual misnduct if is not g harm, and is lovg and nsensual.
BUDDHIST AND GAY?
Redisverg Buddhism’s LGBT history of gay monks, homoerotic samurai, and genr-nonnformg practners and gods * buddhist monk gay *
The qutn sparked tense bat on social media when Pataradanai Setsuwan, a well-known openly gay celebry, entered the monkhood late last month. After g out and intifyg himself as queer and non-bary, he has utilised his social media platforms, drawg his trag as a psychotherapist, to support both gay rights and people stgglg wh prsn.
A Buddhist monk has bee an unlikely champn of Thailand's gay and transgenr muny by lacg his popular live-streamed talk shows wh LGBT+ slang, irreverent humour and social mentary that fans say are helpg to challenge taboos. * buddhist monk gay *
Do the scriptur tly prohib queers om pursug ordatn, or is the nmnatn merely a rult of homophobia and discrimatn? Although mastream society terprets the word pandaka as katoey or trans women, the Buddhist mentari specify five typ of pandaka: men who perform oral sex on other men, men who rive pleasure om watchg gay sex, men whose ans are cut off, such as nuchs, men who are pandaka only durg the wang moon; and dividuals whose sexual ans nnot be classified as exclively male or female.