Miranda L Shaw

Passionate Enlightenment: Women in Tantric Buddhism

Passionate Enlightenment: Women in Tantric Buddhism

Buddhist Goddesses of India

As Long as Space Endures: Essays on the Kalacakra Tantra in Honor of H.H. the Dalai Lama

The Kalacakra Tantra (Kalacakra means "wheel of time") is a tradition of Buddhist theory and practice whose root text treats a fantastic expanse of knowledge ranging from observations of the cosmos to investigations of meditative states and vital bodily energies. In the Tibetan-speaking world, a pub...

Buddhist Goddesses of India

The Indian Buddhist world abounds with goddesses--graceful nature divinities, maternal nurturers, potent healers, mighty protectors, transcendent wisdom figures, cosmic mothers of liberation, and dancing female Buddhas. Despite their importance in Buddhist thought and practice, female deities have ...

Passionate Enlightenment

The crowning cultural achievement of medieval India, Tantric Buddhism is known in the West primarily for the sexual practices of its adherents, who strive to transform erotic passion into spiritual ecstasy. Historians of religion have long held that the enlightenment thus attempted was for men only...

Passionate Enlightenment: Women in Tantric Buddhism (Mythos: The Princeton-Bollingen Series in World Mythology) by Shaw, Miranda (1995) Paperback

The Europe Languages

These online books by Winfred P. Lehmann et al. are about Indo-European languages and historical linguistics, broadly interpreted. They are made available in online form in order to ensure their long-term, widespread accessibility; they may be accompanied by more recent, introductory essays (author/...

Mama Said: Transforming God-Inspired Wisdom into Practical Application

Mama Said shares wisdom handed down from the author's own mother in a series of sayings and thought-provoking insights that will empower you to excel in your life and relationships and experience God's favor. Thoroughly intertwined with biblical truths and the author's compelling personal experience...

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