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Female Empowerment
He returns to female figures as sources of spiritual power.
Matthew Williamson's exploration of female empowerment is a thread that evolves over several years, from the story of Atalanta's independence in Atalanta's Quest, Part Two (2008) to the reverence for female Buddhist deities in Prayer to Yeshe Tsogyal (2014) and Tara - Mother of Liberation (2015). The posts from 2014 and 2015, including The Birth Of Tara, demonstrate a deepening interest in the spiritual and symbolic significance of female figures, highlighting their roles as sources of compassion, wisdom, and liberation. This progression suggests that Williamson's understanding of female empowerment expanded to encompass not only personal autonomy but also spiritual authority and transcendence.
5 posts, in order
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June 2008
Atalanta's Quest, Part Two
(This is part two in a three part story line. Atalanta's Quest Part One is here .) Atalanta stood alone on the beach, watching the ship sail from the shore, whe...
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July 2014
Prayer to Yeshe Tsogyal
[caption id="attachment_908" align="alignright" width="234"] Yeshe Tsogyal[/caption] Prayer to Yeshe Tsogyal ༈ དབྱིངས་ཕྱུག་ཌཱ་ཀིའི་གཙོ་མོ་མཁར་ཆེན་གཟའ། ། yingchu...
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May 2015
Tara - Mother of Liberation
Post from my friend Ganga Nath on Facebook . Tara, or Ārya Tārā, also known as Jetsun Dolma in Tibetan Buddhism, is a female Bodhisattva in Mahayana Buddhism wh...
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June 2015
The Birth Of Tara
The story of Tara's origin, according to the Tara Tantra, recounts that eons ago she was born as a king's daughter, and as a compassionate princess, she regular...
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June 2026
All of It Is True
A walk past every gate the worlds have built — Ganesha, Hekate, Èṣù, Inanna, Anubis, Odin, Raven — and the one ford you cross alone.