Freitag, 10. Mai 2019, 15:15 - 16:45 iCal

Prajñāpāramitā – The Great Mother of all Buddhas

A doctrinal Analysis of the Divine Female in Tantric Buddhism

Seminarraum 1, Institut für Südasien-, Tibet- und Buddhismuskunde
Spitalgasse 2, Hof 2.7, 1090 Wien

Vortrag


A public lecture by Andrea Loseries | (Former) HOD, Department of Indo-Tibetan Studies, Director, Centre for Buddhist Studies, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan, Westbengal

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The Perfection of Wisdom is symbolized in form of the feminine divinity Prajñāpāramitā. She is herself the supreme truth of the void (śūnyatā). Prajñā in Mahāyāna and Vajrayāna means the realization of all phenomenal existence as the void.

 

Mainly based on the Heart Sūtra, the Guhyasamājatantra and the Hevajratantra this presentation aims to clarify the Vajrayāna notion of the “two-in-one” (zung ʼjug), the realization of the essential sameness of female and male, of the absolute and conventional truth, of nirvāņa and samsāra, experienced by the enlightened mind in the ineffable dharmadhātu, the “Great Mother’s Womb”, as great bliss (mahāsukha).

 

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Kontakt

Judith Starecek
Institut für Südasien-, Tibet- und Buddhismuskunde
4277 43502
judith.starecek@univie.ac.at