TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shaw,Miranda
TI  - Passionate Enlightenment: Women in Tantric Buddhism 
T2  - Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology
SN  - 9781400843367
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - RELIGION / Buddhism / General (see also PHILOSOPHY / Buddhist)
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Abhayadatta
KW  - Aghori Vimalananda
KW  - Akanistha heaven
KW  - Arrow-making Yogini
KW  - Babhaha
KW  - Bhakti movements
KW  - Bhattacharyya, Narendra Nath
KW  - Buddha couple
KW  - Buddhahood
KW  - Chinese pilgrims
KW  - Dasgupta, Shashibhusan
KW  - Durjayacandra
KW  - Guneru
KW  - Heruka
KW  - Hindu Tantra
KW  - Jambhala
KW  - Jungian interpretation
KW  - Kambalā
KW  - Kantali
KW  - Klein, Anne
KW  - Lalitavistara
KW  - Madhyamaka
KW  - Maitrīpa
KW  - Odantapurī
KW  - Padmalocanā
KW  - Padmavajra
KW  - Queen Máyá
KW  - Rahulavajra
KW  - Ratnavajra
KW  - Saraha
KW  - behavior of the left
KW  - bliss and emptiness
KW  - bone ornaments
KW  - camphor
KW  - celibacy
KW  - coronation rituals
KW  - cremation grounds
KW  - dance
KW  - embracing
KW  - emptiness
KW  - enlightenment
KW  - fasting ritual
KW  - female authorship
KW  - great passion
KW  - inner yoga
KW  - intimacy in Tantric practice
KW  - low-caste women
KW  - maṇtrinaḥ
KW  - menstrual blood
KW  - passion
KW  - rainbow body
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Illustrations --; Acknowledgments --; Guide to Transliteration --; PASSIONATE ENLIGHTENMENT --; Chapter One. Seeking the Traces of Sky-Dancers --; Chapter Two. Tantric Buddhism in India: Religious and Historical Introduction --; Chapter Three. Women in Tantric Theory: Powerful and Auspicious --; Chapter Four. Women in Tantric Circles: Adepts and Experts --; Chapter Five. Women in Tantric History: Founders and Pioneers --; Chapter Six. Women in Tantric Relationships: Intimacy as a Path to Enlightenment --; Chapter Seven. Spontaneous Jewellike Yogini on Passion and Enlightenment --; Chapter Eight. Conclusions --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - 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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