Echoes of Enlightenment: The Life and Legacy of S¿nam Peldren explores the issues of gender and sainthood raised by the discovery of a previously unpublished "liberation story" of the fourteenth-century Tibetan female Buddhist practitioner S¿nam Peldren.
Echoes of Enlightenment: The Life and Legacy of S¿nam Peldren explores the issues of gender and sainthood raised by the discovery of a previously unpublished "liberation story" of the fourteenth-century Tibetan female Buddhist practitioner S¿nam Peldren.
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.
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* Acknowledgments * Introduction * Chapter One: The Life of Sönam Peldren * Chapter Two: Composing the Life of Sönam Peldren * Chapter Three: The Religion of Sönam Peldren * Chapter Four: "Low Birth but High Thought": Depictions of Gender and Female Bodies in the Life of Sönam Peldren * Chapter Five: 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 Dakini 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
* Acknowledgments * Introduction * Chapter One: The Life of Sönam Peldren * Chapter Two: Composing the Life of Sönam Peldren * Chapter Three: The Religion of Sönam Peldren * Chapter Four: "Low Birth but High Thought": Depictions of Gender and Female Bodies in the Life of Sönam Peldren * Chapter Five: 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 Dakini 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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