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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Greetings David; i know he went there in vision but was not aware he actually traveled to India. Do you have a citation?
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Good catch! I had this info second hand, and have gone to the source. He did not personally go to British India, but wrote about it here…pic.twitter.com/iEHHapM1GJ
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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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It was interesting reading this book, in order to do so!
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