Format:
viii, 296 Seiten
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25 cm
ISBN:
0190225289
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0190225270
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9780190225285
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9780190225278
Content:
"Echoes of Enlightenment explores the issues of gender and sainthood raised by the recently discovered 'liberation story' of the fourteenth-century Tibetan female Buddhist practitioner Sönam Peldren. Born in 1328, Sönam Peldren spent most of her adult life as a nomad in eastern Tibet until her death in 1372. She is believed to have been illiterate, lacking religious education, and unconnected to established religious institutions. For that reason, and because as a woman her claims of religious authority would have been constantly questioned, Sönam Peldren's success in legitimizing her claims of divine identity appear all the more remarkable. Today the site of her death is recognized as sacred by local residents. Suzanne Bessenger draws on the new-found biography of the saint to understand how the written record of the saint's life is shaped both by the hagiographical agendas of its multiple authors and by the dictates of the genres of Tibetan religious literature, including biography and poetry. She considers Sönam Peldren's enduring historical legacy as a fascinating piece of Tibetan history that reveals much about the social and textual machinations of saint production. Finally, she identifies Sönam Peldren as one of the earliest recorded instances of a historical Tibetan woman successfully using the uniquely Tibetan hermeneutic of deity emanation to achieve religious authority."--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-287) and index
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Ye-shes kyi mkhav-vgro-ma Bsod-nams dpal-vdren gyi rnam-thar gsol-vdebs
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780190225292
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Bessenger, Suzanne M., author Echoes of enlightenment New York : Oxford University Press, 2016
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Bessenger, Suzanne M. Echoes of enlightenment Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016 ISBN 9780190225308
Language:
English
Keywords:
Bsod-nam-dpal-ʼdren 1328-1372
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Tibetischer Buddhismus
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Heilige
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Buddhismus
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Heilige
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Biografie
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Biografie
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