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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Chinese style buddhism seems very vulnerable to evangelic christianity
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Yup. Interestingly, though, many in the Chinese elite are adopting Tibetan Buddhism explicitly as a defense against pomo nihilism.
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Mahayana seems doomed to a marginal existence outside Japan
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Well by headcount there’s still a very large number of Chinese Mahayanists… but it may be pretty shallow and/or not meaningfully Buddhist
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