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Passionate Enlightenment

Women in Tantric Buddhism

Author: Miranda Eberle Shaw

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Passionate Enlightenment - Women in Tantric Buddhism

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Women in Tantric Buddhism

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Publisher:  Princeton University Press

Place of printing:  New Jersey

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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 the Pala period (eighth through twelfth centuries C.E.), she substantially reinterprets the history of Tantric Buddhism during its first four centuries. In her view, the Tantric theory of this period promotes an ideal of cooperative, mutually liberative relationships between women and men while encouraging a sense of reliance on women as a source of spiritual insight and power.

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Copy in good condition. Dust jacket with light dust spots and slight signs of wear to the edges and corners. Text in English. Book in good condition.

ISBN Code:  0691033803

EAN:  9780691033808

Pages:  291

Dimensions (cm):
Height:  25
Width:  15

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Text in English. With black and white images nt and ft

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