Passionate Enlightenment: Women in Tantric Buddhism

Passionate Enlightenment: Women in Tantric Buddhism

Author
Miranda Shaw
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Language
English
Year
2021
Page
312
ISBN
9781400843367,1400843367
File Type
pdf
File Size
67.8 MiB

The crowning cultural achievement of medieval India, Tantric Buddhism is known in the West primarily for the sexual practices of its adherents, who strive to transform erotic passion into spiritual ecstasy. Historians of religion have long held that the enlightenment thus attempted was for men only, and that women in the movement were at best marginal and subordinated and at worst degraded and exploited. Miranda Shaw argues to the contrary, presenting extensive new evidence of the outspoken and independent female founders of the Tantric movement and their creative role in shaping its distinctive vision of gender relations and sacred sexuality.

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