Passionate enlightenment : (Record no. 14522)
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| control field | 20211105164737.0 |
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 0-691-01090-0 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Transcribing agency | kinley |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | EB183 |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Shaw, Miranda. |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Passionate enlightenment : |
| Remainder of title | women in Tantric Buddhism / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | Miranda Shaw. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc | Princeton : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc | Princeton University Press, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc | 1994. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | xiii, 291 p. : |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE | |
| Bibliography, etc | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | 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. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Women in Tantric Buddhism |
| Geographic subdivision | India. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Tantric Buddhism. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Mahayana Buddhism |
| Geographic subdivision | India. |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier | http://10.10.80.15/cgi-bin/koha/opac-retrieve-file.pl?id=51cd78947767ccb99950ac3b78841311 |
| Link text | Passionate enlightenment. |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme | Dewey Decimal Classification |
| Koha item type | Ebooks |
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