I wrote about Tantric Theravada and its potential significance for American Buddhism back in 2013, when much less was knowm. Kate Crosby’s field research has filled in many missing details.https://vividness.live/2013/11/28/tantric-theravada-and-modern-vajrayana/ …
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See also Ann Gleig’s 2013 paper on American Tantric-ish Theravada-ish Buddhism, based on her anthropological fieldwork around the Bay Area:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14639947.2013.832496 …
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Here’s a review of Kate Cosby’s earlier book on Tantric Theravada. (Somehow we all published in 2013!) http://www.globalbuddhism.org/jgb/index.php/jgb/article/view/12/12 …
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For STEM/meditation crossover geeks, a startling observation in Crosby’s talk: Early Tantra drew on formal language theory! Transformational grammar (Panini→Chomsky) was a model for transformation as Tantra’s central principle. [link may be NSFW] https://buddhism-for-vampires.com/metablog/dharmakirti-and-panini …pic.twitter.com/IgVYFvmBHJ
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As an aside, I remember reading Trungpa calling the Castaneda books ‘hinayana tantra’. I mean... left field aside

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That’s really interesting; I hadn’t heard that! I guess by “hinayana” in this context he meant a path of individual liberation (pratyekabuddhayana I suppose!). Although there’s also elements of renunciation in Castaneda’s path, so maybe that?
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wonderful thread. thanks, David.
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Oh yes I have this talk queued up somewhere - thanks for reminding me!
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Of fabulous! Trigger me do.
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Wow, that's a lot of information. Thank you for posting this. I'm definitely going to watch it this weekend.
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