Making Sense of Tantric Buddhism: History, Semiology, and Transgression in the Indian Traditions (South Asia Across the Disciplines)
Making Sense of Tantric Buddhismis a major contribution to our understanding of Indian esoteric (or Tantric) Buddhism. Christian K. Wedemeyer writes with verve, humor, and -- most crucially -- remarkable clarity, managing to explain difficult texts and ideas with great lucidity.(Roger R. Jackson, Carleton College)An important new work in Buddhology(Choice1900-01-00)Highly Recommended.(David TemplemanSouth Asia1900-01-00)Wedemeyer not only provides an advanced introduction, but also makes the reader question the assumptions (and almost everyone has assumptions about Tantra!) they bring to and expect of the study of Tantric Buddhism.(Justin Thomas McDanielReligious Studies Review)A clear work that engages a fresh methodology in order to articulate a new theory of Buddhist antinomianism, offering thereby a novel way to 'make sense' of tantric Buddhism.(Journal of Religion)