Love and Liberation

Autobiographical Writings of the Tibetan Buddhist Visionary Sera Khandro

Autor: Sarah H. Jacoby

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Editura: 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

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Carte broșată

Publicat

2015

Pagini

456

EAN

9780231147699

ISBN

0231147694

Enbook ID

09292013

Editura

Columbia University Press

Greutate

622

Dimensiuni

228 x 155 x 29

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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 K nzang Dekyong Ch nyi Wangmo (also called Dew Dorj , 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 land deities, dakinis, bodhisattvas, lamas, and fellow religious community members whose voices interweave with her own to narrate what is a story of both love between Sera Khandro and her guru, Drim zer, and spiritual liberation. 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 practices, complicating standard scriptural presentations of male subject and female aide. Sera Khandro depicts herself and Drim zer 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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