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Seeking Mahadevi: Constructing the Identities of the Hindu Great Goddess Tracy Pintchman
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Seeking Mahadevi: Constructing the Identities of the Hindu Great Goddess
Tracy Pintchman
Explores the identity of the Hindu Great Goddess and how it relates to the many goddesses worshipped in India.
Marc Notes: Incl. bibl. ref. and index; Cloth announced @ $65.50. Review Citations:
Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2001 pg. 12 (EAN 9780791450079, Hardcover)
Contributor Bio: Pintchman, Tracy Linda Penkower is an associate professor of religious studies at the University of Pittsburgh. She has published on the historical, social, institutional, and doctrinal aspects of East Asian Buddhism, especially the Chinese Tiantai tradition. Penkower is currently completing two monographs: "Tiantai Buddhism and the Construction of Lineage during the Tang" and "Shared Sacrality," an annotated translation of the Jin'gangbei (The Diamond Scalpel), the eighth-century Chinese locus classicus for the idea of insentient buddha-nature.
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | June 21, 2001 |
| ISBN13 | 9780791450086 |
| Publishers | State University of New York Press |
| Genre | Religious Orientation > Hindu |
| Pages | 268 |
| Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 25 mm · 353 g |
| Editor | Pintchman, Tracy |
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