My posts on early modern Theravada & Zen simply summarized research by professional historians. Are no detailed parallel analyses for Tibet.
His book summarizes reports from his main Bhutanese disciple, who did spend three years in British India as an official trade representativepic.twitter.com/bd15VropNW
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So although Jigme Lingpa himself was not in India, the text is one source of info on the first step in Tibet’s modernizationpic.twitter.com/QQPyMoKnEE
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Section of Jigme Lingpa’s text on Britain and its industrial products, with an early Buddhist critique of the industrial economy…pic.twitter.com/GLCAQulMqG
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