Author: June Campbell
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass
Year: 2003
Language: English
Pages: 236
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8120817826
Description
Gender, Identity and Tibetan Buddhism is a cross-cultural study which creates links between the symbolic representations of gender in the philosophy of Tibetan Buddhism and contemporary thinking in relation to identity politics and intersubjectivity. It traces some of the important cultural factors in the representations of gender in Tibet's archaic images, its monastic institutions, and in the symbolic space allocated to the male and the female in its religion. And in the light of Tibetan Buddhism's popularity in the west, June Campbell raises important questions concerning the potential uses and abuses of power, authority and secrecy in the sexual practices of Tibetan Tantra, now that its teachings are being disseminated throughout the world.
Contents
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
GLOSSARY
PREFACE OF THE REVISED EDITION
INTRODUCTION
When Iron Birds Appear
Archaic Female Images and Indigenous Culture
The Lotus Deity - A Lost Goddess
Monasticism and the Emergence of the Lineage of the Self-Born
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