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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book in excellent unread/unused condition. Hardcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> The he Indian Buddhist world abounds with goddesses-voluptuous tree spirits mater-nal nurturers potent healers and protectors transcendent wisdom figures cosmic moth-ers of liberation and dancing female Bud-dhas. Despite their importance in Buddhist thought and practice these female deities have received relatively little scholarly atten-tion and no comprehensive study of the female pantheon has been available. Buddhist Goddesses of India is the essential and defini-tive guide to divinities that as Miranda Shaw writes “operate from transcendent planes of bliss and awareness for as long as their pres-ence may benefit living beings.” Beautifully illustrated the book chronicles the histories legends and artistic portray-als of nineteen goddesses and several related human figures and texts. Drawing on a sweeping range of material from devotional poetry and meditation manuals to cituals and artistic images Shaw reveals the character posers and practice traditions of the female dovosties. Intoptetations of inuenguing trans such as ludy colon stanie hanuele cloth Shay haud proines. (MP)