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Pages: 320
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Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 1995-10-08 - Publisher: Princeton University Press

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Anyone who reads a Tantric text or enters a Tantric temple immediately encounters a pantheon of female Buddhas and a host of female enlighteners known as "dakin
Passionate Enlightenment
Language: en
Pages: 320
Authors: Miranda Shaw
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-06-07 - Publisher: Princeton University Press

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The now-classic exploration of the role of women and the feminine in Buddhist Tantra The crowning cultural achievement of medieval India, Tantric Buddhism is kn
Buddhist Goddesses of India
Language: en
Pages: 586
Authors: Miranda Shaw
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-08-25 - Publisher: Princeton University Press

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"The Indian Buddhist world abounds with goddesses--voluptuous tree spirits, maternal nurturers, potent healers and protectors, transcendent wisdom figures, cosm
Enlightenment and Action from Descartes to Kant
Language: en
Pages: 252
Authors: Michael Losonsky
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001-08-13 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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This book systematically traces the development of the idea that the improvement of human understanding requires public activity.
Passionate Minds
Language: en
Pages: 312
Authors: David Bodanis
Categories: Authors, French
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006 - Publisher: Little Brown GBR

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David Bodanis presents this history of the turbulent love affair that fired the Enlightenment's intellectual revolution.