Searching for the body a contemporary perspective on tibetan buddhist tantra

Searching for the body a contemporary perspective on tibetan buddhist tantra Rae Erin Dachille.

In the early fifteenth century, two Tibetan monks debated how to transform the body ritually into a celestial palace inhabited by buddhas. Searching for the Body demonstrates the significance of this debate for understandings of Tibetan Buddhism as well as conversations on representation and embodim...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Dachille, Rae Erin (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York Columbia University Press [2022]
Subjects:
Buddhist cosmogony > China > Tibet Autonomous Region > History and criticism.
Mandala (Buddhism) > China > Tibet Autonomous Region > History and criticism.
Dge-lugs-pa (Sect) > Doctrine > History and criticism.
Sa-skya-pa (Sect) > Doctrine > History and criticism.
Tantric Buddhism.
Buddhist cosmogony.
Mandala (Buddhism)
China > Tibet Autonomous Region.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • A Technical Note
  • Introduction
  • 1 Imagining the Body Mandala
  • 2 Constructing the Body Mandala Debate
  • 3 "Cutting the Ground" Citations Revealing Mandala Iconography in the Making
  • 4 Ngorchen's Armor of Citations: Defending and Delineating the Hevajra Corpus
  • 5 "Aligning the Dependently Arisen Connections" The Exegete Rearticulates Body and Text
  • Conclusion
  • Epilogue
  • Appendixes
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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