Sera khandro autobiography meaning

Sarah in Tibet at Dralek Monastery in Ganze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan Province, PRC.

Here she is reading different editions of Sera Khandro’s collected works and comparing them, as well as scanning parts of them.

Episode highlights:

• Sarah and Olivia sharing why both this podcast and Sarah’s book are called Love & Liberation
• Sera Khandro’s autobiography (namtar) as a pathway of correcting our view around dharma, enlightenment and relationship
• Sera’s transparency on her humanity
• Motherhood and Vajrayana Buddhism
• Female body denigration
• Meaning and purpose of khandromas
• Consortship
• 5 attributes for a successful revelation
• Issues with consortship and sex abuse in Buddhism
• Chatral Rinpoche about his connection and parallels with Sera Khandro
• Sarah Jacoby’s experience with Chatral Rinpoche
• Passage from Sera Khandro on love and liberation.

Sera Khandro Dewé Dorje (Tib.

Love and Liberation: Autobiographical Writings of the Tibetan Buddhist Visionary Sera Khandro. 1934. chos dbyings sgron ma), aka Rigsey Choying Drönma, a daughter of Sera Khandro.

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Further Reading

• Sarah H.

  Jacoby, “Consorts and Revelations in Eastern Tibet: The Auto/biographical Writings of the Treasure Revealer Sera Khandro (1892-1940)” (unpublished PhD thesis)

• Sarah H. Jacoby, “Love and Liberation, Autobiographical Writings of the Tibetan Buddhist Visionary Sera Khandro”, Columbia University Press, New York, USA, 2014.

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Bde ba'i rdo rje.

It can be used for courses on Tibetan Buddhism trying to avoid a purely doctrinal approach, in gender studies courses that favor a balanced approach between various feminist theories, or in comparative literature courses. Jacoby grounds Buddhist theory in the lived experience of an actual practitioner and illuminates this topic based on her fieldwork in Tibet.

It explores questions long in the mind of students of Tibetan Buddhism about how the arcane practices of tantric Buddhism actually figure in the lives—and loves—of real historical people, particularly women. Janet Gyatso, Harvard Divinity School

A complex work, rewarding in many ways… this is a rare window into a world so different, and yet so historically recent… Jacoby brings lots of food for thought and fresh new ways of seeing the familiar.

Revelations

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Students

Among her students are:

• Adzom Drukpa Drodul Pawo Dorje
• Adzom Gyalse Gyurme Dorje
• Adzom Semo Chime Wangmo (Wyl. Sarah H. Jacoby's study of gender and sexuality is pathbreaking in the field of Tibetan studies. Hildegard Diemberger, University of Cambridge

You will laugh, but more often you will cry when reading this first-ever study of a nonmonastic woman who wrote a Tibetan-language autobiography and a biography of a man.

Dbus bza' mkha' 'gro bde ba'i rdo rje'i rnam thar chen mo'i mjug gi kha skong nyung du g.yu yi phra tshom. Her findings add new dimensions to our understanding of Tibetan Buddhist consort practices, complicating standard scriptural presentations of male subject and female aide. Sera Khandro Künzang Dekyong Chönyi Wangmo (also called Dewé Dorjé, 1892–1940) was extraordinary not only for achieving religious mastery as a Tibetan Buddhist visionary and guru to many lamas, monastics, and laity in the Golok region of eastern Tibet, but also for her candor.

Journal of Religion

through the study of Sera Khandro’s writings, the author aims to expand the study of women’s autobiographies, trying to incorporate, aside of the spiritual dimension, their human communities and their spiritual environment.

115-150.

Jacoby, Sarah. The Mirror

List of Illustrations
Preface and Acknowledgments
Technical Note on Tibetan and Sanskrit Words
Abbreviations
Chronology
Maps
Introduction
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