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When a woman becomes a religious dynasty : the Samding Dorje Phagmo of Tibet

Title
When a woman becomes a religious dynasty : the Samding Dorje Phagmo of Tibet / Hildegard Diemberger.
Author
Diemberger, Hildegard.
Publication
New York : Columbia University Press, [2007], ©2007.

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Description
xx, 394 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map; 25 cm
Summary
"Hildegard Diemberger builds her book around the translation of the first biography of Chokyi Dronman recorded by her disciples in the wake of her death. The account reveals an extraordinary phenomenon: although it had been believed that women in Tibet were not allowed to obtain full ordination equivalent to monks, Chokyi Dronma not only persuaded one of the highest spiritual teachers of her era to give her full ordination but also established orders for other women practitioners and became so revered that she was officially recognized as one of two principal spiritual heirs to her main master."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [361]-375) and index.
Contents
Foreword / Marilyn Strathern -- 1. The World of Chokyi Dronma -- 2. The Life of Chokyi Dronma -- 3. The Manuscript and Its Enigmas -- 4. Princess, Nun, Yogini -- Translation of the Biography of the Venerable Chokyi Dronma -- 5. Succession and Spiritual Lineages: Meaning and Mysteries of Chokyi Dronma's Reincarnation -- 6. "Lady of the Lake": The Dorje Phagmo at Samding -- 7. Dorje Phagmo in the Twentieth Century: Embodied Divinity and Government Cadre -- 8. The Living Tradition and the Legacy of the Princess -- Twin Reincarnation Line and Tentative Chronology -- The Families of Chokyi Dronma.
ISBN
  • 9780231143202 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0231143206 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780231512466 (ebook)
  • 0231512465 (ebook)
  • 9780231143219 (paperback)
LCCN
2007000291
OCLC
  • ocm80460149
  • 80460149
  • SCSB-5380447
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries