[PDF.99sy] Making Sense of Tantric Buddhism: History, Semiology, and Transgression in the Indian Traditions (South Asia Across the Disciplines)

Making Sense of Tantric Buddhism: History, Semiology, and Transgression in the Indian Traditions (South Asia Across the Disciplines)

[PDF.tz17] Making Sense of Tantric Buddhism: History, Semiology, and Transgression in the Indian Traditions (South Asia Across the Disciplines)

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 | #329816 in Books |  Columbia University Press |  2014-06-10 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.90 x.80 x5.90l,1.00 | File type: PDF | 336 pages

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||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Pretty heavy reading|By Samhara|Pretty heavy reading. The first part dealing with the history and origin theories of Tantric Buddhism is not analysed in much depth. Wedemeyer picks his fights with the older and some now less accepted theories; but doesn't adequately argue for or against some of the more prominent origin theories. Those that look at homologies of mantra, doctrin| |Making Sense of Tantric Buddhism is a major contribution to our understanding of Indian esoteric (or Tantric) Buddhism. Christian K. Wedemeyer writes with verve, humor, and―most crucially―remarkable clarity, managing to explain difficult texts and i

Making Sense of Tantric Buddhism fundamentally rethinks the nature of the transgressive theories and practices of the Buddhist Tantric traditions, challenging the notion that the Tantras were "marginal" or primitive and situating them instead―both ideologically and institutionally―within larger trends in mainstream Buddhist and Indian culture.

Critically surveying prior scholarship, Wedemeyer exposes the fallacies of attributing Tantric transgression to...

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