{"product_id":"searching-for-the-body-9780231206082","title":"Searching for the Body","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the early fifteenth century, two Tibetan monks debated how to transform the body ritually into a celestial palace inhabited by buddhas. \u003ci\u003eSearching for the Body\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates the significance of this debate for understandings of Tibetan Buddhism as well as conversations on representation and embodiment occurring across the disciplines today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSearching for the Body\u003c\/i\u003e uses a famous fifteenth-century Tibetan debate about a tantric ritual practice called body mandala to explore historical and literary questions that show the relevance of that debate to the broader field of the humanities. Dachille’s knowledge of the Tibetan texts is superb, and her analysis of the body mandala debate is a major contribution to the field. -- José Ignacio Cabezón, author of \u003ci\u003eSexuality in Classical South Asian Buddhism\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRae Dachille makes exemplary use of exegetical practices drawn from trans, queer, Black, and disability studies to enable a posthumanist, and more-than-human, interpretative stance within Buddhism. She critically reframes the ways Buddhist authors can understand how reference, citation, and representation work in Buddhist texts and traditions, expanding our understanding of the ever-shifting boundaries between self, others, and world. This is a smart, beautiful, and timely work. -- Susan Stryker, executive editor, \u003ci\u003eTSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis insightful, well-researched, and original book will ideally appeal to readers who have at least a background in Tibetan Buddhism and care about contemporary social matters. * Religious Studies Review *\u003cbr\u003eA clear and comprehensive contribution to the field. * Religion *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eA Technical Note\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e1. Imagining the Body Mandala\u003cbr\u003e2. Constructing the Body Mandala Debate\u003cbr\u003e3. “Cutting the Ground”: Citations Revealing Mandala Iconography in the Making\u003cbr\u003e4. Ngorchen’s Armor of Citations: Defending and Delineating the Hevajra Corpus\u003cbr\u003e5. “Aligning the Dependently Arisen Connections”: The Exegete Rearticulates Body and Text\u003cbr\u003eConclusion\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue\u003cbr\u003eAppendixes\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400369217879,"sku":"9780231206082","price":90.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780231206082.jpg?v=1730470517","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/searching-for-the-body-9780231206082","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}