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Buddhist Goddesses of India (597p) by Mirenda Shaw is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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Buddhist Goddesses of India is a wonderful contribution to the study of deities. . . . All in all, Shaw's book is a valuable resource for the scholar, the practitioner, and the student of goddess traditions. Her rich profiles provide the necessary historical, iconographic, and ritual background for us to understand the meaning and context of these goddesses, and the art she has chosen and represented with vivid colored plates . . . beautifully illustrates the variety, vitality, and power of the goddess traditions of Buddhist India. (Judith Simmer-Brown Buddhadharma)
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It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Mirenda Shaw
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Published
- 2006
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780691127583
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Religion, Buddhism, Fiction
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