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September 5, 2025Open Access

Empowerment and Equality in Buddhist Tantric Traditions: A Feminist Theological Inquiry

Key Points

Buddhist Tantras emphasize gender equality, showing women as highly capable entities in spiritual and scholarly roles.
Women in Tantras are portrayed as powerful figures, unlike many other religious texts that display biases against them.
The inquiry reveals that Tantric traditions promote empowerment, contrasting with prevalent themes of discrimination found in other scriptures.
This analysis highlights the importance of understanding women's roles in spiritual contexts, especially within Buddhist traditions.

Abstract

Most of the religious scriptures are often accused of containing various types of prejudices against women. However, such allegations cannot be made against Buddhist Tantras, which do not exhibit the slightest doubt about the intellectual and spiritual capabilities of women. The women mentioned in Tantras are highly intelligent, powerful, and dominant. They are yoginīs, scholars, and gurus. Tantras do not support gender discrimination on any basis. Thus, keeping in mind the concepts of ‘gender equality’ and ‘women empowerment’, this paper analyses the status of women in Buddhist Tantras.

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Radha Krishna Baror (Wed,) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68bb3a3d2b87ece8dc95527e https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.53007/sjgc.2025.v10.i1.231