Dachille Searching for the Body

A Contemporary Perspective on Tibetan Buddhist Tantra
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-0-231-55631-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dachille, Rae Erin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Buddhismus Buddhismus: Leben & Praxis, Soziale Aspekte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Sonstige Religionen Sexualität & Gender in den Religionen
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Buddhismus Buddhismus: Heilige Texte & Traditionsliteratur
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Buddhismus Tibetischer Buddhismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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, Unsutured: Notes on the Margin of the Black Book
Appendixes
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Rae Erin Dachille is assistant professor of religious studies and East Asian studies and affiliate faculty in social, cultural, and critical theory and gender and women’s studies at the University of Arizona.