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Author Dachille, Rae Erin, author.

Title Searching for the body a contemporary perspective on tibetan buddhist tantra / Rae Erin Dachille.

Publication Info. New York Columbia University Press [2022]
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Description 1 online resource : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary 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
Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- 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 -- Appendixes -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
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Subject Buddhist cosmogony -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region -- History and criticism.
Buddhist cosmogony.
China -- Tibet Autonomous Region.
Mandala (Buddhism) -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region -- History and criticism.
Mandala (Buddhism)
Dge-lugs-pa (Sect) -- Doctrine -- History and criticism.
Dge-lugs-pa (Sect)
Sa-skya-pa (Sect) -- Doctrine -- History and criticism.
Sa-skya-pa (Sect)
Tantric Buddhism.
Tantric Buddhism.
RELIGION / Buddhism / Tibetan.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version Dachille, Rae Erin Searching for the body New York : Columbia University Press, [2022] 0231206089 (DLC) 2021061436 (OCoLC)1306201371
ISBN 9780231556316 electronic book
0231556314 electronic book
9780231206082
0231206089
9780231206099 paperback
0231206097 paperback

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