Passionate Enlightenment (eBook)

Women in Tantric Buddhism

Miranda Shaw (Autor)

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2022
320 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-23560-8 (ISBN)

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The now-classic exploration of the role of women and the feminine in Buddhist TantraThe 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 bliss. Historians of religion have long held that this attempted enlightenment was for men only, and that women in the movement were at best marginal and subordinated and at worst degraded and exploited. In Passionate Enlightenment, Miranda Shaw argues to the contrary and presents extensive 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. Including a new preface by the author, this Princeton Classics edition makes an essential work available for new audiences.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.6.2022
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Classics
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Classics
• Zusatzinfo: 18 b/w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Buddhismus
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: Abhidharma • androcentrism • another woman • Asceticism • attunement • Avalokitesvara • awareness • Bhairava • Bodhicitta • Bodhisattva • Buddhahood • Buddhism • Buddhist Ethics • Buddhist Pilgrimage • buddhist texts • celibacy • Chakra • Circumambulation • courtesan • deference • deity • Doctrine • Dominatrix • Dukkha • Enlightenment (spiritual) • Equanimity • faith healing • Fasting • Female promiscuity • feminist theology • Five Dhyani Buddhas • Gender Role • Great Goddess • Heruka • Hevajra • Hindu priest • Iconography • inclusivism • independent woman • Indication (medicine) • Kelsang Gyatso • Libido • Literature • Luipa • Maithuna • male gaze • Mandala • Mantra • Meditation • Metaphysics • Milarepa • Mircea Eliade • Monasticism • Niguma • perfection of wisdom • Philosophy • Pratityasamutpada • Puranas • Religion • religious ecstasy • religious experience • religious text • Renunciation • Rita Gross • Rite • Ritual purification • Sacred Prostitution • Sahaja • Samadhi • Sanskrit • Saraha • SCHOLASTICISM • Self-Denial • Sexual Desire (book) • Sexual ritual • Shaktism • Siddhi • Sufi whirling • Sunyata • Superiority (short story) • Tantra • Tantras • Theravada • Thought • Tibetan Buddhism • Tibetan Buddhist canon • Tilopa • Trickster • Vajra • Vajradhara • Vajrayana • Vulva • White Lotus • Worship • Wrathful deities • Writing • Xuanzang • Yajna • Yogi • Yogini
• ISBN-10: 0-691-23560-0 / 0691235600
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-23560-8 / 9780691235608