TRAVELLER IN SPACE:  IN SEARCH OF FEMALE IDENTITY IN TIBETAN BUDDHISM

by June Campbell

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgements
Glossary
Introduction

1. When Iron Birds Appear
2. Archaic Female Images and Indigenous Culture
3. The Lotus Deity--A Lost Goddess
4. Monasticism and the Emergence of the Lineage of the Self-Born
5. 'Free of the Womb's Impurities'--Divine Birth and the Absent Mother
6. At one with the Secret Other
7. A 'Traveller in Space':  The Significance of the Dakini and her Sacred Domain
8. The Question of 'Otherness' in Female Representation
9. Perspectives on Culture and Gender

Notes and References
Bibliography
Index

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