RongzomFan
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Because that is what was spread when Indian culture spread like the Roman empire from northwest Afghanistan to southeast islands.
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When Indian culture spread like the Roman empire from northwest Afghanistan to southeast islands, it spread the true Indian religion, Buddhism.
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Brahmanization of India took a long time. There was a good book I read on this a long time ago. Brahmins were successful at converting the masses to Brahmin authority through various strategies, including accommodation of local beliefs.
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Oh please. There was no Hinduism back in Buddha's day. The only aspects of 'Hinduism' back then were the Vedas and some Upanishads (themselves derived from Sramana) practiced by a small cult of Brahmins. Moreover if Buddhism in Buddha's day was "competing" with anything, it would be evident in the texts. But its not.
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This is not to say that peaceful and wrathfulls are cultural baggage. Indeed even the most New Age oriented people will experience classical grecoBuddhist seated Buddhas and peaceful and wrathful deities spontaneously if they are further down the path.....
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These peaceful and wrathful deities won't pop up unless you practice Shitro etc. Christians probably experience Satan. Indeed there are youtube videos of NDE's. "Avoid the sorry fate of most people, who get completely overwhelmed believing the displays of their own buddha nature to be devils coming to torture them and carry them off to hell. What a pity that would be!" Urgyen, Tulku Rinpoche (2011-12-13). Quintessential Dzogchen: Confusion Dawns as Wisdom (p. 26). Random House Inc Clients. Kindle Edition.
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Well that may be a specifically a Tibetan Nyingma thing. But indeed I pointed out before that Vajrayana sahanas have Ganesha, Lakshmi, Saraswati, Parvati etc. And all our mantras start with Om too. "Hindu" deities are not really Hindu deities. They are pan-Indic deities.
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What does that even mean? In trekcho, you either recognize unfabricated presence vs the conceptualizing mind. Or you don't.
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Thats an interesting question. Even in the most analytical Madhyamaka texts, Indian deities pop up. I'm sure non-Indians are more confused.
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Even two 'Hindu' doctrines like Samkhya and Vedanta are different.
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The dualism between Buddhism and Hinduism is not supported by the facts or history. For starters, there is no Hinduism in the first place.
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Clear light can refer to about three different things. 1. The inseperable clarity and emptiness of the mind, called kun gzhi, Buddha Nature etc. in Mahamudra. "Emptiness" in this specific context means you cannot point to clarity with your finger. You cannot find clarity, nor get rid of clarity. 2. The usual meaning of clear light is when the winds (vayus) are slowed down to a significant extent. Winds and mind are the same thing, so if the winds move subtlety that is considered "subtle mind". Clear light of sleep occurs naturally every night when the winds reconfigure. In dream yoga, you enter the clear light of sleep, and from there you enter a lucid dream. Basically the same thing as wake initiated lucid dreaming, although its combined with transmission of course. Natural death is similar.
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I don't think intellectual views have anything to do with recognizing unfabricated presence vs the conceptualizing mind. But intellectual views play an important part later on for omniscient Buddhahood.
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Greg Goode is a nobody to me. He just follows Tsongkhapa, mostly derived from introductory books by the Dalai Lama. Just because someone sets up a website, doesn't mean they are worthy of discussion.
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You've been trolled by people like xabir who 1) don't understand Buddhism and 2) are not even Indian. I am Indian, raised Hindu. Hindus consider me Hindu. My caste is munnuru kapu. My gothram is Bharadwaja. I've traveled to so many sacred sites in India on so many trips, I can't keep track. And these are not bullshit ashrams. My particular state created Mahayana in the first place (as a response to crypto-realist Abhidharma), and continued to be the preeminent site of Vajrayana. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andhra_Pradesh#Early_history
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If that is your thesis, I have to unlike your first post. Most systems are realist (Buddhist definition): http://thetaobums.com/topic/26462-being-a-realist-buddhist-definition-is-not-good/
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I guess you are speaking from a generic Vajrayana POV with all this transformation stuff. Which is fine by me. Dzogchen on the other hand is about recognition vs nonrecognition. Knowledge vs. ignorance.
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Correct, even in Madhyamaka, D.O. is merely a device that gets you to nonarisal/illusion.
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Correct, there is no dependent origination in Dzogchen. Instead there are the 3 inseparable wisdoms.
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This is an extremely old post of Malcolm's. There are better posts, although the search engine is broken on Dharma Wheel. My understanding is that the only similarity between Dzogchen and Madhyamaka is nonarising/illusion and freedom from extremes, which is evident even from this old post. Buddhist Dzogchenpas hold Madhyamaka as compatible with Dzogchen (with the difference being experiential vs intellectual) but Bon Dzogchenpas don't hold them as compatible at all. But then that brings up the question of what Madhyamaka everyone is following.
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putting on protective shades.... (•_•) ( •_•)>⌐■-■ (⌐■_■)
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logical analysis & synthesis of immortality & its methods
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This is about physical immortality: http://www.amazon.com/The-Khecarividya-Adinatha-Translation-ebook/dp/B000SEK1C0/ref=tmm_kin_title_0- 163 replies
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Regardless of the intellectual system, one can recognize unfabricated presence vs the conceptualizing mind. Zen people do it through reading texts. Vajrayana people have direct introduction. Advaitins have satsang.
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logical analysis & synthesis of immortality & its methods
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Is this supposed to be sarcastic?