@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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Replying to @joffe_p
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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Replying to @joffe_p
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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The fear with that approach is of course that one ends up giving each scholarly camp too little of what they want or expect but i hope there are some useful connections and directions at least
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I think it’s readable enough that non-academic practitioners could get a lot out of it as well. OTOH, you are writing/editing a slew of books specifically for them, so
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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.