The Embryonic Generation of the Perfect Body: Ritual Embryology from Japanese Tantric Sources
(2016)
Book Chapter
Dolce, L. (2016). The Embryonic Generation of the Perfect Body: Ritual Embryology from Japanese Tantric Sources. In A. Andreeva, & D. Steavu (Eds.), Transforming the Void: Embryological Discourse and Reproductive Imagery in East Asian Religions (253-310). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004306523_009
Recent investigations in Japanese temple archives have brought to light medieval documents of diverse provenance, which present the process of generation of the human book-body as a template for the highest Buddhist attainment. These sources expound... Read More about The Embryonic Generation of the Perfect Body: Ritual Embryology from Japanese Tantric Sources.