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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 bliss. Historians of religion have long held that this attempted enlightenment was for men only, and that women in the movement were at best marginal and subordinated and at worst degraded and exploited. In Passionate Enlightenment, Miranda Shaw arg...

Il libro, ora alla sua quarta ristampa negli Usa, è un contributo innovatore allo studio della storia e degli insegnamenti del tantra. Basato sulla lettura diretta dei più antichi testi tantrici nella loro lingua originale, rivela come al cuore di questo insegnamento stiano "le numinose donne camminatrici del cielo... incantatrici appassionate, estatiche e di feroce intensità", riflesso radioso delle donne libere e potenti che furono le prime ...

The Indian Buddhist world abounds with goddesses--graceful nature divinities, maternal nurturers, potent healers, mighty protectors, transcendent wisdom figures, cosmic mothers of liberation, and dancing female Buddhas. Despite their importance in Buddhist thought and practice, female deities have received relatively little scholarly attention, and

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, pr...