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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460007303321

Autore

Jacoby Sarah

Titolo

Love and liberation : the autobiographical writings of the Tibetan visionary Sera Khandro / / Sarah H. Jacoby

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; Chichester, England : , : Columbia University Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-231-14769-4

0-231-51953-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (457 p.)

Disciplina

294.3/923092

Soggetti

Buddhist women - China - Amdo (Region)

Women religious leaders - China - Amdo (Region)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Technical Note on Tibetan and Sanskrit Words -- Abbreviations -- Chronology -- Maps -- Introduction -- 1. THE LIFE AND TIMES OF SERA KHANDRO -- 2. A GUEST IN THE SACRED LAND OF GOLOK -- 3. ḌĀKINĪ DIALOGUES -- 4. SACRED SEXUALITY -- 5. LOVE BETWEEN METHOD AND INSIGHT -- EPILOGUE -- Spelling of Key Tibetan Names and Terms -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Love and Liberation reads the autobiographical and biographical writings of one of the few Tibetan Buddhist women to record the story of her life. Sera Khandro Künzang Dekyong Chönyi Wangmo (also called Dewé Dorjé, 1892-1940) was extraordinary not only for achieving religious mastery as a Tibetan Buddhist visionary and guru to many lamas, monastics, and laity in the Golok region of eastern Tibet, but also for her candor. This book listens to Sera Khandro's conversations with land deities, dakinis, bodhisattvas, lamas, and fellow religious community members whose voices interweave with her own to narrate what is a story of both love between Sera Khandro and her guru, Drimé Özer, and spiritual liberation. Sarah H. Jacoby's analysis focuses on the status of the female body in Sera Khandro's texts, the virtue of celibacy



versus the expediency of sexuality for religious purposes, and the difference between profane lust and sacred love between male and female tantric partners. Her findings add new dimensions to our understanding of Tibetan Buddhist consort practices, complicating standard scriptural presentations of male subject and female aide. Sera Khandro depicts herself and Drimé Özer as inseparable embodiments of insight and method that together form the Vajrayana Buddhist vision of complete buddhahood. By advancing this complementary sacred partnership, Sera Khandro carved a place for herself as a female virtuoso in the male-dominated sphere of early twentieth-century Tibetan religion.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910585957403321

Autore

Meuwissen Miranda P. M

Titolo

Resilient and sustainable farming systems in Europe : Exploring Diversity and Pathways / / edited by Miranda M. P. Meuwissen [and six others] [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge University Press, 2022

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2022

ISBN

1-009-10338-5

1-009-10354-7

1-009-09356-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxxi, 393 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Social Sciences

Disciplina

338.1

Soggetti

Sustainable agriculture

Resilience (Ecology)

Agriculture durable

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Open Access.

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Apr 2022).

Sommario/riassunto

What exactly is resilience and how can it be enhanced? Farming systems in Europe are rapidly evolving while at the same time being



under threat, as seen by the disappearance of dozens of farms every day. Farming systems must become more resilient in response to growing economic, environmental, institutional, and social challenges facing Europe's agriculture. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, the need for enhanced resilience has become even more apparent and continues to be an overarching guiding principle of EU policy making. Resilience challenges and strategies are framed within four main processes affecting decision making in agriculture: risk management, farm demographics, governance and agricultural practices. This empirical focus looks at very diverse contexts, with eleven case studies from Belgium, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Spain and Sweden. This study will help determine the future and sustainability of European farming systems. This title is available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.