Searching for the body a contemporary perspective on tibetan buddhist tantra

Dachille, Rae Erin,

Searching for the body a contemporary perspective on tibetan buddhist tantra Rae Erin Dachille - New York Columbia University Press 2022. - 1 online resource illustrations



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 embodiment occurring across the disciplines today



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Buddhist cosmogony--History and criticism.--China--Tibet Autonomous Region
Mandala (Buddhism)--History and criticism.--China--Tibet Autonomous Region
Dge-lugs-pa (Sect)--Doctrine--History and criticism
Sa-skya-pa (Sect)--Doctrine--History and criticism
Tantric Buddhism.


Electronic Books.

BQ4570 / .S437 2022