My posts on early modern Theravada & Zen simply summarized research by professional historians. Are no detailed parallel analyses for Tibet.
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Around 2012, I started research on the modernization of Tibetan Buddhism. Eventually dropped the project (because, seriously, who cares?).
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Summary: there have been three massive waves of modernization of Tibetan Buddhism. (Plus of course earlier, pre-modern reform waves.)
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Tibetan Buddhist modernization #1 was late 1600s/early 1700s, driven by Chinese modernization under Kangxi and later Qing emperors.
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A key innovation of the 1600s Tibetan Buddhist modernization was mass practice of tantric sadhana, which was previously elite-only.
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Tibetan Buddhist reform wave #2 was 1800s Ri-mé resistance movement, which introduced a strikingly new and attractive metaphysics.
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Tibet in the early 1800s was quite open to the modern world, notably British India. How much influence that had on Ri-mé, I’m not sure!
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Tibetan Buddhist modernization wave #3 is the Nyingma Revival led by Jigme Phuntsok in the 1990s. Very encouraging; has not yet reached West
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So, Tibetan Buddhism known in the West is a mixture of elements from the late 1600s and from the early 1800s. Older than Zen and Theravada!
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