Let me take a couple of photos of my book. That will convey the Cosmic Dualism in the Burmese Wizard Faith
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The Millenarian Buddhist Wizards of Burma believe that they created the 2004 Tsunami to scurge muslimspic.twitter.com/rllf7cBnpJ
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During the anti-colonial struggle a prophet called setka min (world emperor) arose. He punished European Colonialists with WWIIpic.twitter.com/U9QbmttEFN
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Military magic is one of the primary aims of Buddhist tantra. (This is not often explained to white people…) Very much so in Tibet too.
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Jacob Dalton at UC Berkeley has done the most research on this, but hasn’t yet written it up in detail I think
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I’ve fantasized about writing novella about how the Chinese invasion would have gone if the Tibetan military magic had worked as advertised
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… but a vidya game would probably be a better medium for that!
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The burmese monks want to commit magical genocide
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Actually, a lot a lay, i think a minority are monks
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A lot of the weikza movement people, or of the genocidals?
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Weikza movement is primarily outside the clergy. Many have been thrown out
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