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Passionate Enlightenment: Women in Tantric Buddhism

By Miranda Shaw

Book information

Publisher
Princeton University Press
Year
2021
ISBN
9781400843367
DOI
10.1515/9781400843367
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
21 MB (22284280 bytes)
Series
Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology; 571
Pages
312\308
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-24 00:10:48

Description

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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