October 10 *
Sociocultural History of the Buddhist Tantras: Embodied Approaches in India and Tibet
With Joe Loizzo
Required
Shaw, M. (2022). Preface to the Princeton Classics Edition and Tantric Buddhism in India. In Passionate Enlightenment: Women in Tantric Buddhism. (Preface and Chapter 2). Princeton University Press.
Wallace, V. A. (2001). The Social Body. In The Inner Kālachakratantra: A Buddhist Tantric View of the Individual. Oxford University Press. (Read: pp. 109–121, 128–142.)
Recommended
Loizzo, J. (2017). The Guru Question: The Crisis of Western Buddhism and the Global Future of the Nalanda Tradition. Nalanda Institute for Contemplative Science.
Willis, J. (2020). Dharma Matters: Women, Race, and Tantra. Wisdom.
Addendum
Loizzo, J. (2023). The Sociocultural History of the Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Tantras. [PDF of the class presentation]
