Love and Liberation

Autobiographical Writings of the Tibetan Buddhist Visionary Sera Khandro

Autor: Sarah H. Jacoby

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Wydawca: Columbia University Press

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Love and Liberation reads the autobiographical and biographical writings of one of the few Tibetan B...

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Autor

Sarah H. Jacoby

Język

Angielski

Oprawa

Książka - Twarda

Data wydania

2014

strony

456

EAN

9780231147682

ISBN

0231147686

Enbook ID

04558723

Wydawca

Columbia University Press

Waga

758

Wymiary

231 x 165 x 32

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Love and Liberation reads the autobiographical and biographical writings of one of the few Tibetan Buddhist women to record the story of her life. Sera Khandro Dewe Dorje (1892--1940) was extraordinary not only for achieving religious mastery as a Tibetan Buddhist visionary and guru to many lamas, monastics, and laity in the Golok region of eastern Tibet, but also for her candor. This book listens to Sera Khandro's conversations with deities, dakinis, bodhisattvas, lamas, and fellow religious community members and investigates the concerns and sentiments relevant to the author and to those for whom she wrote. Sarah H. Jacoby's analysis focuses on the status of the female body in Sera Khandro's texts, the virtue of celibacy versus the expediency of sexuality for religious purposes, and the difference between profane lust and sacred love between male and female Tantric partners. Her findings add new dimensions to our understanding of Tibetan Buddhist consort practice, complicating standard scriptural presentations of a male subject and a female aide. Sera Khandro depicts herself and her guru and consort, Drime Ozer, as inseparable embodiments of insight and method that together form the Vajrayana Buddhist vision of complete buddhahood. By advancing this complementary sacred partnership, Sera Khandro carved a place for herself as a female virtuoso in the male-dominated sphere of early twentieth-century Tibetan religion.

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