Making Sense of Tantric Buddhism: History, Semiology, and Transgression in the Indian Traditions

by Christian K. Wedemeyer

Book Overview

Making Sense of Tantric Buddhism fundamentally rethinks the nature of the transgressive theories and practices of the Buddhist Tantric traditions, challenging the notion that the Tantras were "marginal" or primitive and situating them instead--both ideologically and institutionally--within larger trends in mainstream Buddhist and Indian culture.

Critically surveying prior scholarship, Wedemeyer exposes the fallacies of attributing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231162413
• ISBN13: 9780231162418
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher