Making Sense of Tantric Buddhism: History, Semiology, and Transgression in the Indian Traditions - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Christian WedemeyerSeries:South Asia Across the DisciplinesPublish date:2014-06-10Pages:336
Language:EnglishPublisher:Columbia University PressISBN-13:9780231162418ISBN-10:231162413UPC:9780231162418Book Category:Religion, PhilosophyBook Subcategory:Buddhism, EasternBook Topic:History, Rituals & PracticeSize:8.90 x 5.90 x 0.80 inchesWeight:1.0009Product ID:SC0VNG7G2H
Making Sense of Tantric Buddhism: History, Semiology, and Transgression in the Indian Traditions
Making Sense of Tantric Buddhism fundamentally rethinks the nature of the transgressive theories and practices of the Buddhist Tantric traditions, challenging the notion that the Tantras were "marginal" or primitive and situating them instead--both ideologically and institutionally--within larger trends in mainstream Buddhist and Indian culture.
Critically surveying prior scholarship, Wedemeyer...Series: South Asia Across the Disciplines
Language:EnglishPublisher:Columbia University PressISBN-13:9780231162418ISBN-10:231162413UPC:9780231162418Book Category:Religion, PhilosophyBook Subcategory:Buddhism, EasternBook Topic:History, Rituals & PracticeSize:8.90 x 5.90 x 0.80 inchesWeight:1.0009Product ID:SC0VNG7G2H
Christian K. Wedemeyer is associate professor of the history of religions at the University of Chicago Divinity School and in the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations. He is the translator and editor of Aryadeva's Lamp That Integrates the Practices: The Gradual Path of Vajrayana Buddhism According to the Esoteric Community Noble Tradition, and his research concerns the history...
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