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Making Sense of Tantric Buddhism: History, Semiology, and Transgression in the Indian Traditions (South Asia Across the Disciplines) by Wedemeyer, Christian K; is a religious work available to read on EtoBox.
What is Making Sense of Tantric Buddhism: History, Semiology, and Transgression in the Indian Traditions (South Asia Across the Disciplines) about?
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 either the passions of lusty monks, primit
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Common subject areas: religion, theology.
- Author
- Wedemeyer, Christian K;
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press : Made available through hoopla
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780231530958
- Category
- religious
- Subjects
- History, Buddhism, Philosophy
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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