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The third of the five precepts—Buddhist guidelines for an ethical life—is to refrain from sexual misconduct. Lay Buddhists are not expected to be celibate like most Buddhist monastics, so the third precept is not a total ban on sex. It does, however, explicitly forbid adultery, rape, or sex with someone who is engaged to another, imprisoned ...
Sexual misconduct (kāmesu micchāra), sometimes also translated as “mis-conduct in sensual pleasures,” is an immoral act prohibited by the Third Precept of the universal Five Precepts morality in Buddhism. In a nutshell, it means a sexual relationship with certain women deemed as sexually ta-boo objects.
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Sex is seen as a serious monastic transgression. Within Theravada Buddhism there are four principal transgressions which entail expulsion from the monastic Sangha: sex, theft, murder, and falsely boasting of superhuman perfections. Sexual misconduct for monks and nuns includes masturbation.
Buddhist Sexual Ethics: Main Issues. Dr. Alexander Berzin 53:57. The traditional classic texts on Buddhist sexual ethics include a wide variety of inappropriate forms of sexual behavior. Motivated by disturbing emotions, such as obsessive desire, they build up karmic potentials that ripen into future unhappiness.
Mar 5, 2020 · Many use the Buddhist concept of ‘sexual misconduct” which locates them firmly in the realm of Buddhist ethics; others push for sexual abuse, assault, or violence to signify they are legal as well as Buddhist breaches; others yet question the validity of seeing them as unethical from either legal or Buddhist perspectives and narrate them within ...
Feb 23, 2021 · Buddhism has a sexual ethics problem. In 2018, the Dalai Lama admitted as much when he said on Dutch public TV that he had been told of sexual violations occurring in Tibetan Buddhist communities as long ago as the early 1990s. His admission was the result of a petition by a group of abuse survivors in the Netherlands.
This article explores under the revival of Buddhism in post-Mao China, how the dominant interpretation of sexual misconduct has, instead of functioning as initially intended, victimized women and queer bodies, pushing them to the forefront of moral criticism.
