Tantric Buddhist elements in Chinese pop culture: Sa Dingding performing the Vajrasattva dharani.
Contemporary Vajrayana religious ritual should be similar, if we had the guts and the resources!
via @AndrewQuintman (drum intro 0:57, spectacle 2:18)https://youtu.be/NzvgScMNtW4?t=57 …
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Replying to @Meaningness
I have a hard time with that video bc the wild drummer girl dressed in Tibetan garb seems so racist. But the other music video is a real spectacle of neocolonial fantasy. I've watched it dozens of times and still can't figure out what's going in!https://vimeo.com/105203542
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Replying to @AndrewQuintman
omg I hadn’t found this one! How magnificently, baroquely, fabulously bogus!
9:01 AM - 2 Nov 2019
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