Buddhist Goddesses of India

Name: Buddhist Goddesses of India
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ISBN: 9780691127583

ISBN-10: 0691127581

ISBN-13: 9780691127583

Edition: 2007

Authors: Miranda Shaw

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The Indian Buddhist world abounds with goddesses--transcendent wisdom figures, maternal nurturers, potent healers and protectors, voluptuous tree spirits, cosmic mothers of liberation, and dancing female Buddhas. But relatively little has been published about these female deities, and until now no single resource was available. Buddhist Goddesses of India is the essential and definitive guide to these divinities that, as Miranda Shaw writes, "operate from transcendent planes of bliss and awareness for as long as their presence may benefit living beings." Beautifully illustrated, the book retells the legends of the deities, devoting a chapter each to the images and histories of nineteen…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 11/5/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 592
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 4.39" tall
Weight: 2.486
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Note on Transliteration


Introduction



Ascent of the Sacred Female in Early Buddhism



Prthiv: Mother Earth



Mayadev: The Buddha's Wondrous Mother and Her Sacred Grove



Yaksins: Voluptuous, Magical Nature Spirits



Sri Laksmi: Glorious Good Fortune



Hariti: Goddess of Motherly Love



Female Buddhas: The Case of Gotami



Mahayana Mothers of Liberation



Goddesses in the Flower Ornament Scripture



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