Monthly Archives: January 2012

Influence

Posted on January 25, 2012 by

Our little lives get complicated Not long after I started using Twitter, I somehow decided to follow @sfslim. Someone must have retweeted something clever he said, I suppose. So far as I have been able to determine, after a year … Continue reading →

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Reinventing Buddhist Tantra

Posted on January 17, 2012 by

A conversation has begun about what post-Consensus Buddhisms could be. I will join in by suggesting renewed Buddhist Tantra as a possibility. Tantra aims in a direction many people want to go—quite a different direction from mainstream Buddhism. So its … Continue reading →

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One Dharma, Zero Tantra

Posted on January 3, 2012 by

Joseph Goldstein’s One Dharma claims in places to be a “unified theory of Dharma” that combines “all the lineages of Buddhism.” The book begins with a two-page endorsement from the Dalai Lama. The Dalai Lama is widely (mis)understood in the … Continue reading →

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