Passionate Enlightenment : Women in Tantric Buddhism Paperback / softback
by Miranda Shaw
Part of the Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology series
Paperback / softback
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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.
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- Pages:312 pages, 18 line illustrations
- Publisher:Princeton University Press
- Publication Date:08/10/1995
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- ISBN:9780691010908
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Item not Available
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:312 pages, 18 line illustrations
- Publisher:Princeton University Press
- Publication Date:08/10/1995
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- ISBN:9780691010908
