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Divining the Feminine in Tibet: Saga & Sādhana of Yeshe Tsogyal

Harvard Divinity School 3,784 3 years ago
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Yeshe Tsogyal, the leading female presence of Tibet, appears in two distinct genres of literature, autobiographical and ritual practice texts (sādhana). In this talk, Anne Carolyn Klein/Rigzin Drolma drew on recent practice texts related writings to conclude that this sādhana is at core a conversation about one’s own relation to a divine feminine, which gradually reveals a wholistic divine, a non-binary writ large, that is nonetheless fully feminine in image and metaphor. This event took place on February 28, 2022. Learn more: https://cswr.hds.harvard.edu/transcendence-and-transformation

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