• Sunil Babu Pant

The question—Is Buddhism anti‑LGBTI?—is asked more and more often, especially as Buddhist societies confront modern debates on gender, sexuality, and human rights. The honest answer is neither a simple yes nor a comforting no. Buddhism, as a lived religion and as an institutional tradition, is layered, historical, and often contradictory. It contains both exclusionary...

The question—Is Buddhism anti‑LGBTI?—is asked more and more often, especially as Buddhist societies confront modern debates on gender, sexuality, and human rights. The honest...