Table of Contents

Contents Acknowledgements Glossary Preface to the Revised Edition Introduction 1 When Iron Birds Appear 2 Archaic Female Images & Indigenous Culture 3 The Lotus Deity - A Lost Goddess 4 Monasticism & the Emergence of the Lineage of the Self-Born 5 Free of the Wombs Impurities: Divine Birth & the Absent Mother 6 At One with the Secret Other 7 A Traveller in Space - The Significance of the Dakini & her Sacred Domain 8 Questions of Self and Other 9 Perspectives on Culture and Gender Conclusion Notes & References Bibliography

About the Author

June Campbell began studying Buddhism in the 1960s and
was among the first western students to study Tibetan Buddhism in India with
exiled lamas from Tibet. In 1977 she
travelled throughout Europe and North America as a Tibetan translator during
the time that Tibetan Buddhist centres were being established in the West. As a university lecturer she later combined
her interest in gender and religion by teaching both Religious Studies and
Women's Studies.

Reviews

"Essential reading for anyone concerned with a creative encounter between Tibetan Buddhism and the West"--Kirkus

"Certainly one of the most important books on Tibetan Buddhism which has been written in the last years"--Numen