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Buddhist Tantric Thealogy? The Genealogy and Soteriology of Tārā
作者 Scherer, Bee
出處題名 Buddhist-Christian Studies
卷期v.38
出版日期2018
頁次289 - 303
出版者University of Hawai'i Press
出版者網址 http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/t3-buddhist-christian-studies.aspx
出版地Honolulu, HI, US [檀香山, 夏威夷州, 美國]
資料類型期刊論文=Journal Article
使用語言英文=English
關鍵詞thealogy; Tārā; goddess; feminism; tantra; Tibetan Buddhism; Buddhist literature; iconography; ritual; modernism
摘要The-a-logy within the Judeo-Christian tradition can be described as a feminist religious subversion of (hetero)patriarchal theology. In this article I argue that the Buddhist bodhisattva/deity Tārā (Saviouress, Tibetan sgrol ma) can provide (and is indeed already providing) similar empowering counter-patriarchal impulses in contemporary global Buddhist (post-)modernism(s).

This article gauges the possibilities of developing thealogy in the Buddhist context based on the unique approach to enlightened female compassion provided in the Indic and Tibetan Mahāyāna and Vajrayāṇa traditions. Genealogy, narratives, iconography, and soteriological conceptualization of Tārā in selected Sanskrit and Tibetan stotras (praises) and sādhanas (meditation texts) are discussed. Tārā is demonstrated to be a multi-valent and multi-functional figure within evolving and changing Indic and Tibetan reference frames.

The article follows Tārā's transformative journey from her origin in hybridity with (Hindu/Śaiva/Śākta) Devī/Durgā traditions; her conceptualization as embodiment of the compassion of Avalokiteśvara—himself the (male) bodhisattva of compassion; as the "saviouress from the eight great dangers" (aṣṭa-mahābhaya; Tibetan 'jigs pa chen po brgyad: lions, elephants, fire, snakes, robbery, water dangers, political dangers/prison, and demons/piśācas); to the empowering female bodhisattva, transcending the gender binarism as Princess Ye shes zla ba. Subsequently, Tārā's rise and function within Buddhist Tantra and her connection and identification with Prajñāpāramitā, and as a consort in the Mahāyoga and Yoginī Tantra traditions are scrutinized. I show how identifying with the female deity in tantric practice pushes the heteropatriarchal, male adept beyond the edge of gender binarism and facilitates the collapse of gender dualities into nondual awareness: on every level of the practitioner's weakening dualistic perception of conventional reality, Tārā provides the female access port to nonduality beyond gender.

After shedding light on the meaning and the function of Tārā deity yoga in Indo-Tibetan traditions, this article reflects on contemporary "theological" adaptations, such as the New Age Buddhist Tārā dancers, and the challenges and opportunities of Buddhist tantric thealogy.

This article exemplifies how a feminist-emancipatory impulse within Christian theology and Christian studies can provide a fruitful inspiration for analogous impulses in Buddhist critical-constructive thought (Dharmology) and Buddhist studies.
目次Introduction: The Many Levels of Female Enlightened Embodiment 290
Devī/Durgā–Tārā 291
Avalokiteśvara’S Compassion 292
Saviouress From the Eight Dangers 293
Transcending the Gender Binary: Princess Ye Shes Zla Ba 294
The Rise of Tārā In Tantra 295
Tārā as Consort in the Mahāyoga and Yoginī Tantra Traditions 296
Tārā–Prajñāpāramitā 297
Praising the Goddess 298
The Many Forms of the Goddess 299
Conclusions 300
Sanskrit and Tibetan Sources 301
References 302
ISSN08820945 (P); 15279472 (E)
DOI10.1353/bcs.2018.0024
點閱次數133
建檔日期2021.01.10










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