INTERDEPENDENT SOCIAL JUSTICE

GELUG BUDDHIST ETHICS AND GENDER EDUCATION IN ADDRESSING INTERSECTIONAL VIOLENCE

Abstract

The article discusses how education for diversity, grounded in the Brazilian experience and in Kimberlé Crenshaw’s concept of intersectionality, can contribute to social justice through the recognition of destructive emotions, according to the ethical framework proposed by the 14th Dalai Lama. Inspired by the Buddhist science of mind, the text brings together knowledge from the fields of gender, race, and class to demonstrate that social inequalities are not limited to structural dimensions but are also emotional, sustained by collective feelings belonging to the families of attachment, anger, and ignorance. Education, in this sense, is understood as an ethical practice capable of transforming destructive emotions into compassion and empathy, fostering respectful coexistence among differences. By integrating the Geluk Buddhist perspective with gender studies, the article proposes a pedagogy of interdependence, in which care and mutual recognition are possible paths for confronting intersectional forms of violence. This perspective makes it possible to understand education for diversity as a process of structural social justice, capable of addressing the cultural and emotional foundations that sustain exclusion.

Keywords: Gender, Violence, Interseccionality, Dalai Lama, Destructive Emotions, Geluk Buddhism