Santipada

Enchant­ing, power­ful, hor­rific, beau­ti­ful, wise, deadly, com­pas­sion­ate, seduct­ive. Women in Buddhist story and image are all these things and more. She takes the signs of the ancient god­dess – the lotus, the sac­red grove, the ser­pent, the sac­ri­fice – and uses them in aston­ish­ing new ways. Her story is one of suf­fer­ing and great tri­als, and through it all an unquench­able long­ing to be free. This beau­ti­fully illus­trated work is as layered and sub­vers­ive as myth­o­logy itself. Based dir­ectly on authen­tic Buddhist texts, and informed with insights from psy­cho­logy and com­par­at­ive myth­o­logy, it takes a fresh look at how Buddhist women have been depic­ted by men and how they have depic­ted them­selves.

 

 

 

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About the author

Bhikkhu Sujato is a Buddhist monk. He ordained in Thai­l­and in 1994 and spent sev­eral years in forest mon­as­ter­ies prac­ti­cing and study­ing the Dhamma. In 2003 he estab­lished Santi Forest Mon­as­tery. Bhikkhu Sujato is a med­it­ator and scholar who spe­cial­izes in his­tor­ical research into the ori­gins of Buddhism.