Echoes of Enlightenment - The Life and Legacy of Sonam Peldren

Informationen zum Autor Suzanne M. Bessenger is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Randolph College. She received her PhD in History of Religions from the University of Virginia, and has lived and traveled extensively in China, India, and Nepal. Her research explores Tibetan Buddhist biographies, cults of saints, and conceptions of gender. She lives in Richmond, Virginia, with her family. Klappentext Echoes of Enlightenment: The Life and Legacy of Sönam Peldren explores the issues of gender and sainthood raised by the discovery of a previously unpublished "liberation story" of the fourteenth-century Tibetan female Buddhist practitioner Sönam Peldren. Zusammenfassung Echoes of Enlightenment: The Life and Legacy of Sönam Peldren explores the issues of gender and sainthood raised by the discovery of a previously unpublished "liberation story" of the fourteenth-century Tibetan female Buddhist practitioner Sönam Peldren.

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• Authors: Suzanne M. Bessenger, Suzanne M. (Assistant Professor of Reli Bessenger, Bessenger Suzanne M.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.08.2016
• EAN: 9780190225278
• ISBN: 978-0-19-022527-8
• No. of pages: 312
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; History, HISTORY / General, RELIGION / Buddhism / History, RELIGION / Buddhism / Tibetan, CE period up to c 1500, History of Religion, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, Tibetan Buddhism