Screen LibraryMaking sense of Tantric Buddhism : history, semiology, and transgression in the Indian traditions /
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Columbia University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New York : |
| Publication Dates: | [2013] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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South Asia across the disciplines
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| Carrier Form: | xx, 313 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-300) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780231162401 (cloth : alkaline paper) : 0231162405 (cloth : alkaline paper) |
| Index Number: | BQ8912 |
| CLC: | B946.6 |
| Call Number: | B946.6/W391 |
| Contents: | PART I: Historiography. 1. Origins, Religion, and the Origins of Tantrism ; 2. Narrating Tantric Buddhism ; 3. Going Native: Traditional Historiography of Tantric Buddhism -- PART II: Interpretation. 4. The Semiology of Transgression ; 5. The Practice of Indian Tantric Buddhism ; 6. Tantric Buddhist Transgression in Context ; Conclusion: No Two "Ways" About It. |