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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Bessenger, Suzanne M.
Titre(s) : Echoes of enlightenment [Texte imprimé] : the life and legacy of the Tibetan Saint Sönam Peldren / Suzanne M. Bessenger
Publication : New York (N.Y.) : Oxford university press, cop .2016
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (VIII-296 p.) ; 25 cm
Comprend : Acknowledgments ; Introduction ; The Life of Sönam Peldren ; Composing the Life
of Sönam Peldren ; The Religion of Sönam Peldren ; "Low Birth but High Thought":
Depictions of Gender and Female Bodies in the Life of Sönam Peldren ; The Posthumous
Careers of Sönam Peldren ; Conclusion ; Appendix A: Outlines of Two Manuscripts
of the Life of Sönam Peldren ; Appendix B: Life Prayer of the Wisdom Ḍākinī Sönam
Peldren ; Appendix C: Ya Nga Jamda Ganden Khachö Ling Nunnery and Its Surroundings
; Appendix D: Mapping the Life and Death of Sönam Peldren ; Bibliography ; Index.
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 279-287. Index
"Echoes of Enlightenment explores the issues of gender and sainthood raised by the
recently discovered 'liberation story' of the fourteenth-century Tibetan female Buddhist
practitioner Sönam Peldren. Born in 1328, Sönam Peldren spent most of her adult
life as a nomad in eastern Tibet until her death in 1372. She is believed to have
been illiterate, lacking religious education, and unconnected to established religious
institutions. For that reason, and because as a woman her claims of religious authority
would have been constantly questioned, Sönam Peldren's success in legitimizing her
claims of divine identity appear all the more remarkable. Today the site of her death
is recognized as sacred by local residents. Suzanne Bessenger draws on the new-found
biography of the saint to understand how the written record of the saint's life is
shaped both by the hagiographical agendas of its multiple authors and by the dictates
of the genres of Tibetan religious literature, including biography and poetry. She
considers Sönam Peldren's enduring historical legacy as a fascinating piece of Tibetan
history that reveals much about the social and textual machinations of saint production.
Finally, she identifies Sönam Peldren as one of the earliest recorded instances of
a historical Tibetan woman successfully using the uniquely Tibetan hermeneutic of
deity emanation to achieve religious authority."
Sujet(s) : Sönam Peldren (1328-1372)
Sönam Peldren (1328-1372) -- Vie religieuse
Bouddhisme tibétain -- Histoire
Genre ou forme : Biographie
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780190225285 (paperback) (alk. paper). - ISBN 0190225289 (paperback) (alk. paper).
- ISBN 9780190225278 (cloth) (alk. paper). - ISBN 0190225270 (cloth) (alk. paper)
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