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

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York Columbia University Press [2022]Description: 1 online resource illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780231556316
  • 0231556314
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version: Searching for the bodyDDC classification:
  • 294.3/43709515 23/eng/20220928
LOC classification:
  • BQ4570.C6
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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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
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
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)3216636

Includes bibliographical references and index

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

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (De Gruyter, viewed on November 18, 2022)

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