変へん成じょう男なん子し

noun

transformation into a man; woman reborn as a man

Buddhist doctrinal term: a woman being reborn as a man in order to attain Buddhahood, based on the idea that only men could become Buddhas in certain sutras. Rare outside Buddhist contexts.

• 法ほ華け経きょうには、女じょ性せいが変へん成じょう男なん子しして成じょう仏ぶつできると説とかれている。

  The Lotus Sutra teaches that a woman can attain Buddhahood by being reborn as a man.