The Passion Book
A Tibetan Guide to Love and Sex
The PassionBook is the most famous work of erotica in the vast literature of Tibetan Buddhism, written by the legendary scholar and poet Gendun Chopel (1903-1951). Soon after arriving in India in 1934, he discovered the Kama Sutra. Realizing that this genre of the erotic was unknown in Tibet, he set out to correct the situation. His sources were two: classical Sanskrit works and his own experiences with his lovers. Completed in 1939, his treatise on passion circulated in manuscript form in Tibet, scandalizing and arousing its readers. Gendun Chopel here condemns the hypocrisy of both society and church, portraying sexual pleasure as a force…
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- ISBN: 978-0-226-52017-9
- EAN: 9780226520179
- Produktnummer: 24196393
- Verlag: The University of Chicago Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 160 S.
- Masse: H14.0 cm x B21.5 cm x D1.4 cm 250 g
- Gewicht: 250
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
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