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Traveller in Space : Gender, Identity and Tibetan Buddhism.

"In this revised edition of June Campbell's ground-breaking and ambitious work, many of the key issues concerning gender, identity and Tibetan Buddhism, are now broadened and further clarified in order to create a better understanding of the historical importance of gender symbolisation in...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Campbell, June
Otros Autores: Campbell
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2018.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Glossary; Preface to the Revised Edition; Introduction; 1. When Iron Birds Appear; 2. Archaic Female Images and Indigenous Culture; 3. The Lotus Deity
  • A Lost Goddess; 4. Monasticism and the Emergence of the Lineage of the Self-Born; 5. 'Free of the Womb's Impurities'
  • Divine Birth and the Absent Mother; 6. At One with the Secret Other; 7. A 'Traveller in Space'
  • The Significance of the Dakini and Her Sacred Domain; 8. Questions of Self and Other; 9. Perspectives on Culture and Gender; Conclusion; Notes and References.