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1 online resource (xx, 394 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), map |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-375) and index. |
| Contents |
List of illustrations -- Foreword / Marilyn Strathern -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- pt. 1 -- 1. World of Chokyi Dronma -- 2. Life of Chokyi Dronma -- 3. Manuscript and its enigmas -- 4. Princess, nun, yoginī -- pt. 2. Translation of the biography of the venerable Chokyi Dronma -- pt. 3 -- 5. Succession and spiritual lineages : meaning and mysteries of Chokyi Dronma's reincarnation -- 6. "Lady of the lake": the Dorje Phagmo at Samding -- 7. Dorje Phagmo in the twentieth century : embodied divinity and government cadre -- 8. Living tradition and the legacy of the princess -- Epilogue -- Twin reincarnation line and tentative chronology -- Families of Choki Dronma -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. |
| Summary |
In the fifteenth century, the princess Chokyi Dronma was told by the leading spiritual masters of her time that she was the embodiment of the ancient Indian tantric deity Vajravarahi, known in Tibetan as Dorje Phagmo, the Thunderbolt Female Pig. After suffering a great personal tragedy, Chokyi Dronma renounced her royal status to become a nun, and, in turn, the tantric consort of three outstanding religious masters of her era. After her death, Chokyi Dronma's masters and disciples recognized a young girl as her reincarnation, the first in a long, powerful, and influential female lineag. |
| Local Note |
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Chos-kyi-sgron-ma, 1422-1455.
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Chos-kyi-sgron-ma, 1422-1455. |
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Bsam-lding-dgon-pa (Tibet, China) -- History.
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Bsam-lding-dgon-pa (Tibet, China) |
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History. |
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Chos-kyi-sgron-ma, 1422-1455. |
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Bsam-lding-dgon-pa (Tibet, China) |
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Dorje Phagmos (Vajravārāhi incarnations) -- Biography.
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Dorje Phagmos (Vajravārāhi incarnations) |
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Biographies.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Diemberger, Hildegard. When a woman becomes a religious dynasty. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2007 9780231143202 0231143206 (DLC) 2007000291 |
| ISBN |
0231512465 (electronic book) |
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9780231512466 (electronic book) |
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9780231143202 (alkaline paper) |
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0231143206 (alkaline paper) |
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0231143214 |
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9780231143219 |
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EB00639581 Recorded Books |
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