Enlightenment Unveiled: A Feminist Perspective on the Path to Nirvana in Buddhism

Abstract

In the contemporary scenario, materialistic and intellectual changes have given humans multifarious concepts. It has given individualism, freedom, formal equality, rejection of traditions, faith in new scientific and technology progress, human’s perfectibility and so on. These changes have been called with the term ‘Modernity’ and these changes have also given birth to feminist thought; even Feminism is known as the daughter of modernization. Under the influence of modernization, women have been aware towards their rights. As such women had started struggling to attain equality between the sexes. Before the birth of the word ‘Feminism’, this thought has based on movements like women’s rights, women’s freedom, women’s movements and so on. All these groups are concerned with the issues of gender difference as well as advocate equality for women and campaigns for women’s rights.
Feminism term is also based on such issues. According to New Encyclopedia of Britannica, “Women’s liberation movement also called feminist movement, social movement that seeks equal rights for women, giving them equal status with men and freedom to decide their own carriers and life partners.