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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The Dalai Lama is big on inducting everyone into Kalacakra, which means signing up as a foot soldier in a future life for the final >
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> epic Armageddon show-down with Islam. He may not explain this perfectly clearly to everyone.
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I have noticed that therevada manages to hold its own, unlike other buddhisms
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Yes; I think because it’s been intertwined with state modernization programs since 1850shttps://vividness.live/2011/07/05/the-king-of-siam-invents-western-buddhism/ …
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Plausibly that makes it especially vulnerable to postmodernity once that reaches SE Asia
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