Echoes of enlightenment [electronic resource] : the life and legacy of the Tibetan Saint Sönam Peldren / Suzanne M. Bessenger.
Bessenger, Suzanne M., author.
2016
BQ942.S5965 B48 2016eb
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Title Echoes of enlightenment [electronic resource] : the life and legacy of the Tibetan Saint Sönam Peldren / Suzanne M. Bessenger.
Author Bessenger, Suzanne M., author.
ISBN 9780190225308 (electronic book)
DOI https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190225278
Published New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (viii, 296 pages)
Item Number 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190225278 doi
Call Number BQ942.S5965 B48 2016eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 294.3923092
Summary 'Echoes of Enlightenment' explores the issues of gender and sainthood raised by the discovery of a previously unpublished 'liberation story' of the fourteenth-century Tibetan female Buddhist practitioner Sonam Peldren.
Note 'Echoes of Enlightenment' explores the issues of gender and sainthood raised by the discovery of a previously unpublished 'liberation story' of the fourteenth-century Tibetan female Buddhist practitioner Sonam Peldren.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on July 19, 2016).
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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.

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