འཕགས་པ་ཆས་དང་དན་རྣམ་པར་འབྱད་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད notes.5
Distinguishing Phenomena and What Is Meaningful notes.5
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5. This notion that women might be obliged to turn into or be reborn as men in order to awaken to buddhahood, somewhat jarring to modern sensibilities, is a common idea found throughout Mahāyāna literature. For more on this theme, see Nattier (2002). Statements of this kind are partially counterbalanced by passages in other sūtras in which the role of gender is downplayed or deconstructed.