Passionate Enlightenment Women in Tantric Buddhism

Name: Passionate Enlightenment Women in Tantric Buddhism
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ISBN: 9780691010908

ISBN-10: 0691010900

ISBN-13: 9780691010908

Edition: 1994

Authors: Miranda Shaw

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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 subordinated 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.

Book details

List price: $39.95
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 10/8/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 312
Size: 5.94" wide x 10.20" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Guide to Transliteration



Seeking the Traces of Sky-Dancers



Tantric Buddhism in India: Religious and Historical Introduction



Women in Tantric Theory: Powerful and Auspicious



Women in Tantric Circles: Adepts and Experts



Women in Tantric History: Founders and Pioneers



Women in Tantric Relationships: Intimacy as a Path to Enlightenment



Spontaneous Jewellike Yogini on Passion and Enlightenment



Conclusions


Notes


Bibliography


Index