@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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Well, for me, plenty, but I was extensively involved in that world for many years. Most people who follow me on twitter know nearly nothing about Buddhism and are at most vaguely interested in the modernist mainstream.
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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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(Random factoids for your amusement: my mother and spouse both have anthro Masters’ degrees. My mother’s supervisor was Jack Goody, who wanted her to do her PhD fieldwork in a kibbutz. She would have been there when Melford Spiro was. She decided to marry my father instead…
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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.