Passionate Enlightenment Women in Tantric Buddhism - Hardcover

Shaw, Miranada

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Verlag: Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers, 2000

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VerlagMunshiram Manoharlal Publishers
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ISBN 10 8121508207
ISBN 13 9788121508209
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Passionate Enlightenment : Women in Tantric Buddhism

Miranda Shaw

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Buchbeschreibung Hardcover. Zustand: New. Contents: 1. Seeking the traces of sky-dancers. 2. Tantric Buddhism in India: religious and historical introduction. 3. Women in Tantric theory: powerful and auspicious. 4. Women in Tantric circles: adepts and experts. 5. Women in Tantric history: founders and pioneers. 6. Women in Tantric relationships: intimacy as a path to enlightenment. 7. Spontaneous Jewellike Yogini on passion and englightenment. 8. Conclusions. Notes. Bibliography. Index. "The crowning cultural achievement of medieval India, Tantric Buddhism is known in the west primarily for the sexual practices of its adherents, who strive to transform erotic passion into spiritual ecstasy. Historians of religion have long held that the enlightenment thus attempted was for men only, and that women in the movement were at best marginal and subordinate and at worst degraded and exploited. Miranda Shaw argues to the contrary, presenting extensive new evidence of the outspoken and independent female founders of the Tantric movement and their creative role in shaping its distinctive vision of gender relations and sacred sexuality. "Anyone who reads a Tantric text or enters a Tantric temple immediately encounters a pantheon of female Buddhas and a host of female enlighteners known as "dakinis," who dance and leap in joyous poses that communicate a sense of mastery and spiritual power. This striking female imagery is fully compatible with Shaw's findings. Drawing on interviews and archival research conducted during two years of fieldwork in India and Nepal, including more than forty previously unnoticed works by women of. Bestandsnummer des Verk�ufers 891

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