TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dachille,Rae Erin
TI  - Searching for the body: a contemporary perspective on tibetan buddhist tantra
SN  - 9780231556316
AV  - BQ4570.C6 
U1  - 294.3/43709515 23/eng/20220928
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Columbia University Press
KW  - Buddhist cosmogony
KW  - China
KW  - Tibet Autonomous Region
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Mandala (Buddhism)
KW  - Dge-lugs-pa (Sect)
KW  - Doctrine
KW  - Sa-skya-pa (Sect)
KW  - Tantric Buddhism
KW  - Cosmogonie bouddhique
KW  - Chine
KW  - Région autonome du Tibet
KW  - Histoire et critique
KW  - Mandala (Bouddhisme)
KW  - Bouddhisme tantrique
KW  - Vajrayana
KW  - aat
KW  - RELIGION / Buddhism / Tibetan
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - East Asian studies
KW  - Glenn Ligon
KW  - Khédrupjé Gélek Pelzangpo
KW  - Ngorchen Künga Zangpo
KW  - Robert Mapplethorpe
KW  - Tibetan Buddhism
KW  - body mandala
KW  - embodiment
KW  - gender
KW  - interpretation
KW  - religious studies
KW  - representation
KW  - ritual
KW  - tantra
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - 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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