Ben P. Joffe

@joffe_p

Anthropology PhD from South Africa based in Denver. Tibetan& Buddhist Studies, Western esotericism, religion, gender, history. ❤️ur work, hope u win

Denver, CO
Joined October 2015

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    [Open-access Thesis] “White Robes, Matted Hair: Tibetan Tantric Householders, Moral Sexuality, and the Ambiguities of Esoteric Buddhist Expertise in Exile" by :

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    Jan 22

    read , a Studies anthropologist, (& himself, not unlike a character out of a novel): tracking how representations of tulpa (sprul pa, ) periodically surface in popular culture:

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    Jan 22

    curious about the etymology of Tulpagenics™, the secretive startup in ?

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  4. Jan 18
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  5. Jan 18

    If peer reviewed work published by a major academic press is, as Kingsepp claims, using a fictional role playing game manual unironically as a source of information about actual Tibet-Germany political history I would be very worried!

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  6. Jan 18

    The Trimondis have virtually zero scholarly credibility in Tibetan Studies. To see them foregrounded as a credible source in the book alarms me.

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    Jan 15

    Alexandra David-Neel (1933) on ngakpas; quoted in ’s thesis

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  8. Jan 12
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  9. Jan 12

    Great news! My anthropology PhD thesis on Tibetan tantric yogi/ni householders and the global circulation of esoteric Tibetan Buddhist knowledge is now available to read and download open-access on Proquest!

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    Jan 8

    "Deity yoga entails learning how to stably & clearly perceive the fundamental emptiness or contingent, impermanence of one’s conventional sense of self..." Mirroring the Master: Making Magic in a 19th Century Tibetan Book of Spells | The Perfumed Skull

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  11. Jan 7

    you get a mention in this!

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    3 Dec 2019

    Just came across 's 2015 article on "Tibetan" singing bowls, via . Remember folks, singing bowls sound cool and all, but there's nothing ancient—or even Tibetan—about them.

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  14. 31 Oct 2019

    New post on indigenous Tibetan tantric yogic healing practice, Yookchö/Yukcho དབྱུག་བཅོས་ or ‘Stick Therapy’!

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  16. 13 Jul 2018

    A translation of Padmasabhava’s parting words to Tibet’s ngakpa or non-celibate tantric yogi vow-holder community, as found in the 14th c. revealed text the Pema Kathang:

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  17. 8 Jul 2018

    New post on what is likely the first ever description of Blavatsky and Theosophy written in Tibetan by a Tibetan:

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    A review by Ben Joffe of Julio Cesar Ody's Magister Officiorum: "Ultimately, Julio’s book is one of the first devoted to Solomonic magic traditions that has...

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