Extremely niche, but will be explosive for some meditation geeks:
- for vipassanists, learning how Theravadan meditation worked before the 1800s modernist reforms
- for vajrayanists, learning how similar Theravadan tantra is

@agleighttps://youtu.be/M1KcXP6T6ag
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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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