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Hey Dhamma practitioners/ meditators/Buddhists, what’s up with all the kirtan?

This one parted my hair as it went over my head? Are you referring to chanting or expressing ourselves via interpretative dance? :)

I wish it was interpretive dance!!! I keep seeing “Buddhist” teachers doing stuff with kirtaniyyas and Hindu “Bhakti” yogis. All these Meditation groups hosting Kirtans.

The only cross over I know of is there are some Buddhists teachers who are friends with Bhakti Yoga types (eg: David Nichtern freinds with Krishna Das). That said, there are several analogous practices in Buddhism, which use similar mechanisms, but are distinct in several ways.

I don’t know how much detail you’re interested in, but Buddhist practices similar to kirtan can be found especially in the yogic song traditions. Three main types are Doha, Vajragiti, and Caryagiti. Although traditions categorise variously. One can look at this in many ways...

Right. So much of the Vajrayana praxis is identical with Hindu yogatantra. Yantra/bijja-dhyana-mantra/puja/Guru worship/transformation of gross physical elements into progressively subtler elements culminating in a totally spiritualized (rainbow) body/

Not identical, but very similar in many ways, sure.