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Echoes of Enlightenment - The Life and Legacy of Sonam Peldren (Hardcover) Loot Price: R3,872
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Echoes of Enlightenment - The Life and Legacy of Sonam Peldren (Hardcover): Suzanne M. Bessenger

Echoes of Enlightenment - The Life and Legacy of Sonam Peldren (Hardcover)

Suzanne M. Bessenger

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Echoes of Enlightenment: The Life and Legacy of Soenam Peldren explores the issues of gender and sainthood raised by the discovery of a previously unpublished "liberation story" of the fourteenth-century Tibetan female Buddhist practitioner Soenam Peldren. Born in 1328, Peldren spent most of her adult life living and traveling as a nomad in eastern Tibet until her death in 1372. Existing scholarship suggests that she was illiterate, lacking religious education, and unconnected to established religious institutions. That, and the fact that as a woman her claims of religious authority would have been constantly questioned, makes Soenam Peldren's overall success in legitimizing her claims of divine identity all the more remarkable. Today the site of her death is recognized as sacred by local residents. In this study, Suzanne Bessenger draws on the newly discovered biography of the saint, approaching it through several different lenses. Bessenger seeks to understand how the written record of the saint's life is shaped both by the specific hagiographical agendas of its multiple authors and by the dictates of the genres of Tibetan religious literature, including biography and poetry. She considers Peldren's enduring historical legacy as a fascinating piece of Tibetan history that reveals much about the social and textual machinations of saint production. Finally, she identifies Peldren as one of the earliest recorded instances of a historical Tibetan woman successfully using the uniquely Tibetan hermeneutic of deity emanation to achieve religious authority.

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Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United States
Release date: August 2016
Authors: Suzanne M. Bessenger (Assistant Professor of Religious Studies)
Dimensions: 238 x 163 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-022527-8
Categories: Books > Humanities > History > World history > 500 to 1500
Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > General > History of religion
Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Non-Christian religions > Religions of Indic & Oriental origin > Buddhism > Tibetan Buddhism
Books > History > World history > 500 to 1500
Books > Religion & Spirituality > Non-Christian religions > Religions of Indic & Oriental origin > Buddhism > Tibetan Buddhism
Books > Religion & Spirituality > General > History of religion
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LSN: 0-19-022527-0
Barcode: 9780190225278

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