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Searching for the Body
A Contemporary Perspective on Tibetan Buddhist Tantra
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English
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2022
About this book
In the early fifteenth century, two Tibetan monks debated how to transform the body ritually into a celestial palace inhabited by buddhas. Searching for the Body demonstrates the significance of this debate for understandings of Tibetan Buddhism as well as conversations on representation and embodiment occurring across the disciplines today.
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Rae Erin Dachille is assistant professor of religious studies and East Asian studies and affiliate faculty in social, cultural, and critical theory and gender and women’s studies at the University of Arizona.
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Susan Stryker, executive editor, TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly:
Rae Dachille makes exemplary use of exegetical practices drawn from trans, queer, Black, and disability studies to enable a posthumanist, and more-than-human, interpretative stance within Buddhism. She critically reframes the ways Buddhist authors can understand how reference, citation, and representation work in Buddhist texts and traditions, expanding our understanding of the ever-shifting boundaries between self, others, and world. This is a smart, beautiful, and timely work.
Rae Dachille makes exemplary use of exegetical practices drawn from trans, queer, Black, and disability studies to enable a posthumanist, and more-than-human, interpretative stance within Buddhism. She critically reframes the ways Buddhist authors can understand how reference, citation, and representation work in Buddhist texts and traditions, expanding our understanding of the ever-shifting boundaries between self, others, and world. This is a smart, beautiful, and timely work.
José Ignacio Cabezón, author of Sexuality in Classical South Asian Buddhism:
Searching for the Body uses a famous fifteenth-century Tibetan debate about a tantric ritual practice called body mandala to explore historical and literary questions that show the relevance of that debate to the broader field of the humanities. Dachille’s knowledge of the Tibetan texts is superb, and her analysis of the body mandala debate is a major contribution to the field.
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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A Technical Note
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Introduction
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1 Imagining the Body Mandala
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2 Constructing the Body Mandala Debate
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3 “Cutting the Ground” Citations Revealing Mandala Iconography in the Making
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4 Ngorchen’s Armor of Citations: Defending and Delineating the Hevajra Corpus
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5 “Aligning the Dependently Arisen Connections” The Exegete Rearticulates Body and Text
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Conclusion
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Appendixes
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Notes
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Bibliography
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Index
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November 10, 2022
eBook ISBN:
9780231556316
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eBook ISBN:
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Keywords for this book
body mandala; tantra; Tibetan Buddhism; embodiment; gender; religious studies; ritual; interpretation; representation; East Asian studies; Ngorchen Künga Zangpo; Khédrupjé Gélek Pelzangpo; Glenn Ligon; Robert Mapplethorpe
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Professional and scholarly;
