『법화경』의 여성관에 대한 연구

Abstract

This paper examines the Women's View of Saddharmapundarikasutra, which is an important buddhist texts in the Buddhist culture of East Asia.　Saddharmapundarikasutra is a well-known scripture that has been popularized in terms of faith and ideology, using a variety of metaphors, symbols, and expressions. Negative point of view in Buddhist sutra is eight precepts of bikuni, five disability of women thought, women can not becoming a Buddhist thought, etc. But, positive social roles of women, there is no gender difference in enlightenment, the wisdom and compassion of a bodhisattva is found in a woman's body, women’s sermon, we can see that positive women’s view in Buddhism.These differences were related to the social conditions in India at the time, and the recognition of women as practitioners and the ability to attain enlightenment elevated the status of women at the time. In this paper, in order to investigate Women's View of Saddharma- pundarikasutra, we first divided Women's View of Buddhism into negative and positive aspects. In Saddharmapundarikasutra, that has negative cognition of women, but shown positive women’s view of prediction of enlightenment and possibility of becoming a Buddha. Dragon women talk about becoming a Buddha aftrer changing gender(變性成佛), which is thought to be a religious idea to avoid conflict with Hinduism. And becoming a Buddha aftrer changing gender means an active training methodology. According to Buddhist teachings, all sentient beings' original nature is that they are essentially equal, so there is no discrimination.　In other words, they escape from the male chauvinism of the time by believing that women can also attain enlightenment.　Saddharmapundarikasutra’s women’s view is a positive sutra that raises the possibility of women becoming Buddhas through Buddhist training.