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Yogmaya Neupane ((ネパール語:योगमाया न्यौपाने)) (1860–1941) was a Nepalese religious leader, women's rights activist and poet, who founded the first organization of Nepali women, the Nari Samiti for Women's Rights in 1918.〔(Yogmaya Neupane )〕 Neupane was born in 1860 in Dingla, Bhojpur District, Nepal. She entered into an arranged marriage at an early age, and was widowed within three years. Upon returning to her maternal home she was accused by her in laws of mariticide. After a few years, she remarried and left for Assam in India. She returned to Nepal with her daughter in 1903 and became involved in various religious activities. She also protested against injustice, corruption and blasphemes through the medium of hymns, religious songs and poems. In time Neupane attracted over 2,000 followers and organized them into the country's first ''Nari Samiti'' (women's committee). The committee constituted under the leadership of Neupane concentrated its activities against the exploitation of women in the name of religion and tradition, including widow marriage, child marriage and polygamy. Within a few years of its activity, the committee submitted a 24-point petition of demands stating the problems facing women to Rana Prime Minister, Chandra Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana, who, in 1920, abolished the Nepalese practice of Sati.〔(Upheavals in Nepal ) Govinda Neupane. 2001, Center for Development Studies, Nepal.〕 Following the death of Chandra Shumsher, Neupane and her disciples came to Kathmandu and met and discussed the matter with Juddha Shumsher and his wife. Neupane was offered a plate full of gold coins, but refused the offer, stating that she would be more satisfied if a religious and humane state could be established. After receiving assurance of reform in religion they returned to Dingla. Instead of working on the promised reforms, the government labeled four activists to be revolutionaries, and executed them in 1940. Neupane and her followers lost hope, she returned to Majhuwabesi and settled on the banks of the River Arun, near Tumlingtar. In protest of the government's actions she, her elder brother, his wife and daughter, and 68 other disciples committed ''jal-samadhi'' (mass suicide), by jumping into the Arun River in 1941.〔〔〔(It is Better To Die Than To Live In the Lawless State )〕 ==Further reading== * ''Shakti Yogmaya: A Tradition of Dissent in Nepal'' by Barbara Nimri Aziz. Tribhuvan University’s Centre for Nepal and Asian Studies, 1993〔(The ascetic of the Arun )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Yogmaya Neupane」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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