Japan Has A Buddhist Monk Fightg For Gay Rights? • Instct Magaze

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A gay Buddhist monk talks about his sexualy and relign.

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THE GAY PRECEPT: HOW BUDDHISM VIEWS HOMOSEXUALY

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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.

JAPAN HAS A BUDDHIST MONK FIGHTG FOR GAY RIGHTS?

Ined, how do Buddhism view homosexualy?

I grew up Europe and sce I am part Danish/part Turkish, I was raised wh the Abrahamic monotheistic fahs and their views on homosexualy.

Beg an aspirg vtigative journalist, I cid to probe the waters and seek the Buddhists view on homosexualy. The robt fellow held my ey wh an tense, almost sctisg gaze, when I asked him if Siddhartha ever talked about homosexualy. ”In the time of the Buddha, there were no homosexuals, so our great teacher did not mentn anythg about this; hence is difficult to discs the subject om a Buddhist pot of view.

BUDDHIST AND GAY?

Bee of this, a subsequent life, you might be rernated as neher a real man, nor a woman, but a homosexual _ an ‘ between’, ” he ntued.

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