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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This an inaccurate because the Rime movement was a inter-tradition dialogue between Tibetan schools. Not "new and attractive metaphysics"
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Did you know that Jigme Lingpa (founder of Longchen Nyingthig) traveled extensively in British India and wrote a book about what he saw?
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Replying to @Meaningness @fuzzylogic8250
what new metaphysics did Jigme Lingpa introduce?
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He, not so much. (And he’s sort of marginal as counting as Ri-mé I guess.) I was thinking of Mipham particularly.
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Replying to @Meaningness @fuzzylogic8250
are you referring to the inseparability of the two truths?
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Replying to @chagmed @fuzzylogic8250
Well, Nagarjuna used that phrase, didn’t he? All subsequent Madhyamaka is about sorting out its implications.
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fair enough. so what is the new metaphysics you referred to?
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Well, the Beacon of Certainty; but also his synthesis of the Gesar epic with serious Buddhism. His purported engineering feats also notable
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U r positing that the Buddhism practiced now is not "timeless" because it is based on a living tradition adapted to cultural constructs?
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