Буддизм и трансгендерность

Is the discipline of the lay disciple refused to eunuchs? No, the discipline of a lay disciple is not refused to them; only the station in life of a lay disciple is refused to them because it is not suitable for them to associate with the monastics of the community of monks and nuns or to serve them.

There are five kinds of eunuchs:

     (i) eunuch by birth (jātipaṇḍaka),

     (ii) jealous eunuch (īrṣyāpaṇḍaka),

     (iii) fourteen-day eunuch (pakṣapaṇḍaka),

     (iv) wet eunuch (āsecanakapaṇḍaka) and

     (v) eunuch of effort (āpatpaṇḍaka).²¹⁵

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215 These five types correspond respectively to 1. napuṃsakapaṇḍaka, 2. usūyapaṇḍaka, 3. pakkhapaṇḍaka, 4. āsittapaṇḍaka, 5. opakkamikapaṇḍaka, as described in the Samantapāsādikā, Commentary on the Vinaya (Colombo, ed. III, 1900, pg 187). According to the explanation in the Commentary, the napuṃsakapaṇḍaka is born a hermaphrodite, impotent or without distinct sexual organs (abhāva). The usūyapaṇḍaka is a person whose sexual appetite is satisfied by jealousy (excitement) when he sees the sexual union of others. The pakkhapaṇḍaka is a person who becomes a eunuch during the fourteen dark days (kālapakkha), i.e., during two weeks from the full moon to the new moon, and who obtains sexual satisfaction during the fourteen light days (juṇhapakkha), i.e. during the two weeks between the new moon and the full moon. The āsittapaṇḍaka is a eunuch whose sexual appetite is satisfied when he takes the male sex organ of another into his mouth and when the latter emits semen into his mouth. (The Kāmasūtra of Vatsyāyana, ed. La Fontaine d’Or, Paris, pp. 85-87, gives a detailed description of this type of eunuch.) The opakkhamikapaṇḍaka is a person who emits semen by means of some sort of effort or device.