1 Western Buddhism failed mainly for lack of competent clergy. In Asia, that's monks. Monasticism can't, doesn't, won't work in the West.
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2 Western Buddhism tried to substitute hobbyists with day jobs for religious professionals. No institutional support, no serious training.
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3 Ngakpas are non-monastic Vajrayana professionals. A credible model for what Western Buddhism would have needed, and failed for lack of.pic.twitter.com/ZjRx2sRgeu
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Stop being so melodramatic. Buddhism in the West has not failed. Utter rubbish.
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Melodrama can help shake people out of complacency. But, also, I do think Western Buddhism (not same as Buddhism in the West) has failed.
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Genuinely practicing Buddhism requires a large commitment to meditation practice and other things that only relatively small numbers of.....
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...practitioners will have, hence it will always be small, it may simply be finding it's equilibrium not dying......
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It might be a marginal presence in terms of wider culture but ready to offer great value to serious practitioners who turn to it.....
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This might be inevitable and not the worst state of affairs.
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