Female Buddhas : women of enlightenment in Tibetan mystical art / Glenn H. Mullin with Jeff J. Watt ; art from the collection of the Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation ; photographs of Tibet by Marcia Keegan
Pt. 1. An overview of the tradition. In praise of the feminine ; Male & female Buddhas ; Buddha Shakyamuni ; The Buddhist legend in India ; The Sutra way ; The doctrine of the Three Kayas ; Tantra, mantra & mandala ; The Tantra way ; Three jewels, three roots & three types of female Buddhas ; Tibetan mystical art as pictorial language ; The story of Tibetan mystical art ; Concluding reflections. -- Pt. 2. Treasures from the Rubin Collection. Arya Tara ; Healing trinity ; Female Buddhas with an agenda ; The Yum in Yab Yum ; The Vajra Dakinis ; Female Buddhas & their mandalas ; Female Dharma protectors ; Great female lineage masters. -- Pt. 3. Epilogue. A Dakini song from the Seventh Dalai Lama
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