When a Woman Becomes a Religious Dynasty: The Samding Dorje Phagmo of Tibet

Hildegard Diemberger

November, 2007
Cloth, 416 pages, 64 illus.
ISBN: 978-0-231-14320-2
$49.50 / £29.00

List of Illustrations

Foreword, by Marilyn Strathern

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I

1. The World of Chokyi Dronma

2. The Life of Chokyi Dronma

3. The Manuscript and Its Enigmas

4. Princess, Nun, Yogini

Part II

Translation of the Biography of the Venerable Chokyi Dronma

Part III

5. Succession and Spiritual Lineages: Meaning and Mysteries of Chokyi Dronma's Reincarnation

6. "Lady of the Lake": The Dorje Phagmo at Samding

7. Dorje Phagmo in the Twentieth Century: Embodied Divinity and Government Cadre

8. The Living Tradition and the Legacy of the Princess

Epilogue

Twin Reincarnation Line and Tentative Chronology

The Families of Chokyi Dronma

Notes

References

Index

Related Subjects

• Asian Religion
• East Asian Studies

About the Author

Hildegard Diemberger is director of the Tibetan Studies Programme at the Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge, and is a research associate of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and of the Italian Ev-K2-CNR committee. She has published extensively on the anthropology of Tibet and the Himalayan regions and, with Pasang Wangdu, has co-authored the translations of the Shel dkar chos 'byung and the dBa' bzhed.

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