Autorentext
Rae Erin Dachille is assistant professor of religious studies and East Asian studies and affiliate faculty in social, cultural, and critical theory and gender and women's studies at the University of Arizona.

Klappentext

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.

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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