Gendun Chopel

The Passion Book (eBook, ePUB)

A Tibetan Guide to Love & Sex

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"[A] joyful-and explicit-guide to sex.... [V]iews sexual pleasure as a human right and stresses the importance of female consent and equality." -Ian Kerner, CNN The Passion Book is the most famous work of erotica in the vast literature of Tibetan Buddhism, written by the legendary scholar and poet Gendun Chopel (1903-1951). Soon after arriving in India in 1934, he discovered the Kama Sutra. Realizing that this genre of the erotic was unknown in Tibet, he set out to correct the situation. His sources were two: classical Sanskrit works and his own experiences with his lovers. Completed in 1939, his "treatise on passion" circulated in manuscript form in Tibet, scandalizing and arousing its readers. Gendun Chopel here condemns the hypocrisy of both society and church, portraying sexual pleasure as a force of nature and a human right for all. On page after page, we find the exuberance of someone discovering the joys of sex, made all the more intense because Chopel had taken the monastic vow of celibacy in his youth and had only recently renounced it. He describes in ecstatic and graphic detail the wonders he discovered. In these poems, written in beautiful Tibetan verse, we hear a voice with tints of irony, self-deprecating wit, and a love of women not merely as sources of male pleasure but as full partners in the play of passion. "Explicit, unabashed, detailed, and encyclopedic... [A] joyful book." -Tricycle "An enchanting new translation.... Chopel's writing couldn't be more timely.... He confronted the patriarchy, challenging those who dehumanized women or thought the poor deserved less." -Los Angeles Review of Books

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: The University of Chicago Press
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780226520209
• Artikelnr.: 52710793

Autorenporträt

Donald S. Lopez Jr. is the Arthur E. Link Distinguished University Professor of Buddhist and Tibetan Studies at the University of Michigan. His recent books include Strange Tales of an Oriental Idol: An Anthology of European Portrayals of the Buddha and Hyecho's Journey: The World of Buddhism. Thupten Jinpa is adjunct professor of Tibetan Buddhist philosophy in the School of Religious Studies at McGill University. The author and translator of many books, he has been the principal English-language translator for the Dalai Lama since 1985.