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Buddhism: Religion, Gender and Sexuality

Buddhism, Gender and Sexuality in Thailand

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Recall questions on the changes in Thai society since the 1980s and how they have shaped Buddhist thinking on gender and sexuality.

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What major development in Thailand after the 1980s brought encounter with Western lifestyles and values, influencing Buddhist thinking about gender and sexuality?

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When was the Theravada order of nuns revived?

Key term

How do Buddhist views about homosexuality vary across traditions?

Key term

What three factors relating to Thai society have influenced developments in Buddhist thinking about gender and sexuality?

Key term

What type of governmental action in Thailand has influenced Buddhist thinking about gender and sexuality?

Key term

How do different Buddhist traditions vary in their views about celibacy?

Process

How do Buddhists differ over marriage, sexuality and the ordination of nuns?

Process

What brought Thailand into contact with Western lifestyles, and how do Buddhist traditions differ over celibacy and homosexuality?

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  1. 1

    What major development in Thailand after the 1980s brought encounter with Western lifestyles and values, influencing Buddhist thinking about gender and sexuality?

    Model answer

    The development of tourism in Thailand after the 1980s.

  2. 2

    What three factors relating to Thai society have influenced developments in Buddhist thinking about gender and sexuality?

    Model answer

    Tourism bringing Western values, changing roles of men and women in society, and rights given to women by secular governments.

  3. 3

    How have changing roles of men and women in Thai society outside of religion affected Buddhism?

    Model answer

    They have influenced developments in Buddhist thinking about gender and sexuality.

  4. 4

    What type of governmental action in Thailand has influenced Buddhist thinking about gender and sexuality?

    Model answer

    Legal rights that secular Thai governments have extended to women.

  5. 5

    When was the Theravada order of nuns revived?

    Model answer

    In the late 1990s, following significant debate within the Buddhist community.

  6. 6

    In Theravada Buddhism, who is a leading voice in ongoing arguments over whether women may be ordained and what part they should play?

    Model answer

    Dhammananda.

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