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Mosaic of Female Wholeness:
The Archetypal Realm of Buddhist Goddesses

Presented by
Miranda Shaw, Ph.D.

Date: Saturday, May 10, 2008
Time: 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Registration 8:30 AM)
Location: First Community Church, North Campus, 3777 Dublin Rd. Columbus, OH 43221
Fee: Members $35-$40, Non-Members $45-$50 (Reduced fee by May 2, 2008)

4 CEUs for Psychologists, Social Workers and Counselors ($10 fee for non-members)

The Buddhist tradition offers a fascinating array of goddesses that embody every aspect of gendered existence as a female, from maternal nurture to wounded fury. Each carries within it wisdom, a gift, and a lesson on the journey to wholeness.

Weaving together stories, poems and images, Shaw evokes the archetypal realm of Buddhist goddesses, and invites a journey into their healing presence that leads to the sacred core of female experience and spirituality. She draws on her groundbreaking research on the ascent of the sacred female in Buddhism, from the early nature divinities through the great wisdom mothers and protectors of the Mahayana movement, to the dynamic, passionate, fully enlightened Tantric female Buddhas.

She also examines the sacred female in Tantric relationship with the sacred male. The program features beautiful, evocative slides of the fascinating goddess images and rituals that Dr. Shaw photographed during her extensive travels in India and Nepal, interweaving word and image to communicate a powerful, inspiring Buddhist vision of female wholeness and sacredness..

Miranda Shaw (Ph.D. Harvard Univ) is author of the award-winning Passionate Enlightenment: Women in Tantric Buddhism (1994) and Buddhist Goddeses of India (2006), both published by Princeton University Press. Serving on the Religion faculty of the University of Richmond in Virginia, she sojourns frequentlly to the Himalayas to research goddess traditions and women's spiritual practices, focusing on the embodied practices of sacred sexuality and sacred dance.

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