Female Buddhas : women of enlightenment in Tibetan mystical art / Glenn H. Mullin with Jeff J. Watt ; art from the collection of the Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation ; photographs of Tibet by Marcia Keegan.

Includes bibliographical references (page 224) and index.

Pt.1: 1. An overview of the tradition. In praise of the feminine ; Male & female Buddhas ; Buddha Shakyamuni ; The Buddhist legend in India ; The Sutra way ; The doctrine of the Three Kayas ; Tantra, mantra & mandala ; The Tantra way ; Three jewels, three roots & three types of female Buddhas ; Tibetan mystical art as pictorial language ; The story of Tibetan mystical art ; Concluding reflections. -- pt. 2. Treasures from the Rubin Collection. Arya Tara ; Healing trinity ; Female Buddhas with an agenda ; The Yum in Yab Yum ; The Vajra Dakinis ; Female Buddhas & their mandalas ; Female Dharma protectors ; Great female lineage masters. -- pt. 3. Epilogue. A Dakini song from the Seventh Dalai Lama.

Buddhist scholar, Mullin, a specialist on Tibet, put together a Tibetan exhibition at the Oglethopre University Museum of Art in Atlanta from the Shelley and Donald Rubin Collection, and wrote this accompanying text. He discusses the feminine in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism and Tibetan mystical art, then comments on the art works, which are reproduced in color. Annotation ♭2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).