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Making Sense of Tantric Buddhism

History, Semiology, and Transgression in the Indian Traditions

Making Sense of Tantric Buddhism( )
Author: Wedemeyer, Christian K.
Series title:South Asia Across the Disciplines Ser.
ISBN:978-0-231-53095-8
Publication Date:Nov 2012
Publisher:Columbia University Press
Book Format:Digital (delivered electronically)
List Price:AUD $75.00
Book Description:

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...
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Book Details
Pages:336
Detailed Subjects: Religion / Buddhism / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):15.24 x 22.86 cm



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