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When a Woman Becomes a Religious Dynasty - The Samding Dorje Phagmo of Tibet (Paperback)
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When a Woman Becomes a Religious Dynasty - The Samding Dorje Phagmo of Tibet (Paperback)
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In the fifteenth century, the princess Chokyi Dronma was told by
the leading spiritual masters of her time that she was the
embodiment of the ancient Indian tantric deity Vajravarahi, known
in Tibetan as Dorje Phagmo, the Thunderbolt Female Pig. After
suffering a great personal tragedy, Chokyi Dronma renounced her
royal status to become a nun, and, in turn, the tantric consort of
three outstanding religious masters of her era. After her death,
Chokyi Dronma's masters and disciples recognized a young girl as
her reincarnation, the first in a long, powerful, and influential
female lineage. Today, the twelfth Samding Dorje Phagmo leads the
Samding monastery and is a high government cadre in the Tibet
Autonomous Region. Hildegard Diemberger builds her book around the
translation of the first biography of Chokyi Dronma 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. Diemberger offers a number of
theoretical arguments about the importance of reincarnation in
Tibetan society and religion, the role of biographies in
establishing a lineage, the necessity for religious teachers to
navigate complex networks of political and financial patronage, the
cultural and social innovation linked to the revival of ancient
Buddhist civilizations, and the role of women in Buddhism. Four
introductory, stage-setting chapters precede the biography, and
four concluding chapters discuss the establishment of the
reincarnation lineage and the role of the current incarnation under
the peculiarly contradictory communist system.
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