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Echoes Of Enlightenment The Life And Legacy Of Tibetan Saint Sonam Peldren Bessenger

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Publisher: Oxford University Press

File Extension: PDF

File size: 17.08 MB

Pages: 313

Author: Bessenger, Suzanne M.; Bsod-nam-dpal-ʼdren

ISBN: 9780190225308, 0190225300

Language: English

Year: 2016

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Echoes Of Enlightenment The Life And Legacy Of Tibetan Saint Sonam Peldren Bessenger by Bessenger, Suzanne M.; Bsod-nam-dpal-ʼdren 9780190225308, 0190225300 instant download after payment.

"Echoes of Enlightenment explores the issues of gender and sainthood raised by the recently discovered 'liberation story' of the fourteenth-century Tibetan female Buddhist practitioner Sö̈nam Peldren. Born in 1328, Sönam Peldren spent most of her adult life as a nomad in eastern Tibet until her death in 1372. She is believed to have been illiterate, lacking religious education, and unconnected to established religious institutions. For that reason, and because as a woman her claims of religious authority would have been constantly questioned, Sö̈nam Peldren's success in legitimizing her claims of divine identity appear all the more remarkable. Today the site of her death is recognized as sacred by local residents. Suzanne Bessenger draws on the new-found biography of the saint to understand how the written record of the saint's life is shaped both by the hagiographical agendas of its multiple authors and by the dictates of the genres of Tibetan religious literature, including biography and poetry. She considers Sö̈nam 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 Sö̈nam 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."--Provided by publisher.
Abstract: Echoes of Enlightenment: The Life and Legacy of Sonam Peldren explores the issues of gender and sainthood raised by the discovery of a previously unpublished "liberation story" of the fourteenth-century Tibetan female Buddhist practitioner Sonam Peldren.