Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Technical Note -- Introduction -- 1 Imagining the Body Mandala -- 2 Constructing the Body Mandala Debate -- 3 "Cutting the Ground" Citations Revealing Mandala Iconography in the Making -- 4 Ngorchen's Armor of Citations: Defending and Delineating the Hevajra Corpus -- 5 "Aligning the Dependently Arisen Connections" The Exegete Rearticulates Body and Text -- Conclusion -- Epilogue -- Appendixes -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary
In the early fifteenth century, two Tibetan monks debated how to transform the body ritually into a celestial palace inhabited by buddhas. Searching for the Body demonstrates the significance of this debate for understandings of Tibetan Buddhism as well as conversations on representation and embodiment occurring across the disciplines today
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (De Gruyter, viewed on November 18, 2022)
