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Shaw, Miranda - Passionate Enlightenment, woman in tantric Buddhism
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| Schrijver: | Shaw, Miranda |
| Titel: | Passionate Enlightenment, woman in tantric Buddhism |
| ISBN: | 9780691033808 |
| Uitgever: | Princeton University Press |
| Bijzonderheid: | 3e herziene druk 1994, Third printing with corrections, 1994, hardcover, 291pp, stofomslag, dustjacket, PERFECT, klein stukje uit stofomslag achterzijde, grijs linnen kaft boek, |
| Prijs: | € 25,00 |
| Meer info | Uitverkoopprijs Samenvatting 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. Drawing on interviews and archival research conducted during two years of fieldwork in India and Nepal, including more than 40 works by women of the Pala period, the author reinterprets the history of Tantric Buddhism during its first four centuries. In her view, the Tantric theory of this period promotes an ideal of co-operative, 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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