The iconic female
Subtitle: goddesses of India, Nepal, and Tibet
By: edited by Jayant Bhalchandra Bapat and Ian Mabbett.
Contributors: Bapat, Jayant Bhalchandra, 1938-; Mabbett, Ian W.; Monash Asia Institute.
Publisher: Monash University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Clayton, Vic., Australia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9781876924669
Subjects: Goddesses -- India; Goddesses -- China -- Tibet; Goddesses -- Nepal; Women and religion
Notes: "Monash Asia Institute"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-224) and index.
Table of contents: title: Contextualising the goddess / Ian Mabbett and Jayant Bhalchandra Bapat; title: Archaeology of the goddess: an Indian paradox / Angelo Andrea Di Castro; title: Pārvatī as creator of māyā or victim of māyā: the role of Gaṇeśa's mother in the Gaṇeśapurāṇa / Greg Bailey; title: When Reṇukā was not a goddess / Rashmi Desai; title: The Lajjāgaurī: mother, wife, or yoginī / Jayant Bhalchandra Bapat; title: Devī and tantric practice / John R. Dupuche; title: The ḍākinī in Tibetan hagiography / David Templeman; title: Devī's lion herders: bards and bardic goddesses and the moral regulation of power in late-medieval Rajasthan / Max Harcourt; title: Songs in the presence of Mammai Mātājī / Effy George; title: The Khāḍādevī Temple of modern Mumbai: communal harmony and the Koḷī goddess / Marika Vicziany and Jayant Bhalchandra Bapat.