Christian K Wedemeyer

Making Sense of Tantric Buddhism

History, Semiology, and Transgression in the Indian Traditions

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Making Sense of Tantric Buddhism challenges the notion that Buddhist Tantras were marginal or primitive and situates them instead--both ideologically and institutionally--within larger trends in mainstream Buddhist and Indian culture. Through close analysis of primary sources, Christian K. Wedemeyer reveals the lived world of Tantric Buddhism as largely continuous with the Indian religious mainstream and deploys contemporary methods of semiotic and structural analysis to make sense of its seemingly repellent and immoral injunctions. Innovative readings of the Guhyasamaja Tantra underscore the text's overriding concern with purity, pollution,… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-231-16241-8
EAN: 9780231162418
Produktnummer: 15978114
Verlag: Columbia University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
Seitenangabe: 336 S.
Masse: H22.6 cm x B15.1 cm x D2.0 cm 468 g
Gewicht: 468

Über den Autor

Christian K. Wedemeyer is associate professor of the history of religions at the University of Chicago Divinity School and in the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations. He is the translator and editor of Aryadeva's Lamp That Integrates the Practices: The Gradual Path of Vajrayana Buddhism According to the Esoteric Community Noble Tradition, and his research concerns the history and literature of Buddhism in Southern Asia and Tibet.