Misstyk wrote:
I was referring to coercive Christianity and did a compare and contrast instillation in abusive Christian groups vs what I have seen described in memoirs written by students of Tibetan Buddhism.
I mentioned vajra hell because a student of Chogyam Trungpa, Stephen Butterfield mentioned that he and the other students were taught about vajra hell and expected to take it seriously.
(The Double Mirror by Stephen Butterfield)
Butterfield wrote that he got into trouble when, at a party, he jokingly made a toast to vajra hell.
Demon protectors of the dharma were mentioned in Buddha From Brooklyn by Martha Sherrill - that book described the sangha that formed around Jetsunma Akhon Lamo.
Misstyk wrote:
That's right. This post will give a framework for me to do exactly that.
In his book Turtle Feet: The Making and Unmaking of a Buddhist Monk, Nikolai Grozni, who spent several years in Dharamsala as a Gelukpa monk and studied
at the Buddhist Institute of Dialectics in the 1990s, tells that in the curriculum there was a class on the Hell Realms.
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Why would anyone coming from an atheistic background, or a Christian background that they had rejected, take any of this on? That makes no sense to me.
I was referring to coercive Christianity and did a compare and contrast instillation in abusive Christian groups vs what I have seen described in memoirs written by students of Tibetan Buddhism.
I mentioned vajra hell because a student of Chogyam Trungpa, Stephen Butterfield mentioned that he and the other students were taught about vajra hell and expected to take it seriously.
(The Double Mirror by Stephen Butterfield)
Butterfield wrote that he got into trouble when, at a party, he jokingly made a toast to vajra hell.
Demon protectors of the dharma were mentioned in Buddha From Brooklyn by Martha Sherrill - that book described the sangha that formed around Jetsunma Akhon Lamo.
Misstyk wrote:
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We need someone to put up a book review of the "Double Mirror" book, if there isn't already one posted, somewhere. That would be informative.
That's right. This post will give a framework for me to do exactly that.
In his book Turtle Feet: The Making and Unmaking of a Buddhist Monk, Nikolai Grozni, who spent several years in Dharamsala as a Gelukpa monk and studied
at the Buddhist Institute of Dialectics in the 1990s, tells that in the curriculum there was a class on the Hell Realms.
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Some weeks passed and Tsar and I established a routine. We'd set the
alarm clock for seven-thirty, intending to get an early start and arrive at the
Library of Xbetan Works and Archives in time for the eight o'clock Introduction
to Buddhist Hells class, which we were both mildly curious about,
and every morning we'd wake up at half-past nine, with neither of us having
any recollection of an alarm going off at any point.
Turtle Feet, page 122
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