Making Sense of Tantric Buddhism: History, Semiology, and Transgression in the Indian Traditions. By Christian Wedemeyer. South Asia Across the Disciplines Series. New York: Columbia University Press, 2013. Pp. 313. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $26.00....
The origins of tantric Buddhism in India remain nebulous, with some scholars dating the early texts from the fourth century ce. Its literature, including all manner of ritual texts and meditation manuals, as well as exegetical works, continued to be composed in India for the next six centuries...
2013. Making Sense of Tantric Buddhism: History, Semiology, & Transgression in the Indian Traditions. New York: Columbia University Press.Wedemeyer, Christian. Making Sense of Tantric Buddhism: History, Semiology, and Transgression in the Indian Traditions. New York: Columbia University Press, 2013....
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 ...
2013. Making Sense of Tantric Buddhism: History, Semiology, & Transgression in the Indian Traditions. New York: Columbia University Press.Wedemeyer, Christian. Making Sense of Tantric Buddhism: History, Semiology, and Transgression in the Indian Traditions. New York: Columbia University Press, 2013....
Making Sense of Tantric Buddhism: History, Semiology, and Transgression in Indian Traditions By...Elacqua, Joseph P.Journal of Buddhist EthicsJournal of Buddhist EthicsSorensen, Henrik H. "Review of Wedemeyer, Christian K., Making Sense of Tantric Buddhism: History, Semiology, and Transgression in...
Kripal's tantric transmission thesis to advance an essentially tantric hermeneutic of West Coast Vipassana. I argue that while West Coast Vipassana is originally based in Theravada Buddhism, an Asian renouncer tradition that sharply differentiates between the immanent and transcendent, it has taken a ...