@Meaningness I hope you found there was adequate context in the thesis itself for the myriad esoteric things I touched on all too briefly!https://twitter.com/Meaningness/status/1219329248369856518 …
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I tried to write about Vajrayana for anthropologists who had never heard of it (few anthropologists I meet have any general exposure to tantric traditions AS tantric traditions) while also speaking to less comparative, more narrowly focused Tantra/Tibetan/Buddhist Studies too
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Yes, I think that worked well (based on my limited understanding of what anthropologists know and do and care about). It’s extremely readable.
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ngkapas (tantric Buddhist clergy) and
Buddhist sexual practice. Relevant readers will find his work FASCINATING, but for most it’d need more contextualization than I could manage.