Buddhist Tantric Thealogy? The Genealogy and Soteriology of Tārā

The-a-logy within the Judeo-Christian tradition can be described as a feminist religious subversion of (hetero)patriarchal theology. In this article I argue that the Buddhist bodhisattva/deity Tārā (Saviouress, Tibetan sgrol ma) can provide (and is indeed already providing) similar empowering counte...

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Main Author: Scherer, Burkhard 1971- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: University of Hawaii Press [2018]
In: Buddhist Christian studies
Year: 2018, Volume: 38, Pages: 289-303
Further subjects:B Tibetan Buddhism
B Feminism
B Tantra
B Tārā
B Buddhist literature
B Iconography
B Ritual
B Thealogy
B Goddess
B Modernism
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