Path: shell.portal.com!shell.portal.com!not-for-mail From: nagasiva@yronwode.com (nagasiva) Newsgroups: alt.religion.buddhism,alt.magick.tyagi,talk.religion.buddhism,talk.religion.misc,alt.religion.shamanism,alt.magick.tantra Subject: 'Tantric' Buddhism? (Was : OMiNous 1.6) Followup-To: alt.relition.buddhism,alt.magick.tyagi,talk.religion.buddhism,talk.religion.misc,alt.religion.shamanism,alt.magick.tantra,alt.religion.buddhism.tibetan Date: 15 Jan 1996 17:40:22 -0800 Organization: Portal Communications (shell) Lines: 39 Sender: tyagi@shell.portal.com Message-ID: <4devm6$kv2@jobe.shell.portal.com> References: <4cec2m$lni@homer.alpha.net> <4cfgpp$b5u@homer.alpha.net> <4comi3$mp5@lantana.singnet.com.sg> Reply-To: cbhunter@best.com (C. B. Hunter) NNTP-Posting-Host: jobe.shell.portal.com Xref: shell.portal.com alt.religion.buddhism:141 alt.magick.tyagi:6208 talk.religion.buddhism:15262 talk.religion.misc:199323 alt.religion.shamanism:2990 alt.magick.tantra:611 [from alt.religion.buddhism.tibetan: cbhunter@best.com (C. B. Hunter)] In article <4comi3$mp5@lantana.singnet.com.sg>, omega5@singnet.com.sg (Omega) wrote: > keutzer@synopsys.com (Kurt Keutzer) wrote: > >KK replies: > >I'm not sure where you'd like to go with this line of inquiry. My assertion > >(long since lost in this exchange) was that Tantric Buddhism evolved along > >the Silk Road incorporating the elements of many teachings that it > If I remembered correctly, my teacher Dr. Frederick Streng taught that > Tantric Buddhism was an amalgamation of indigenous North Indian 'occultic' > (not to be misunderstood or substituted with the Occultic sciences as the > terms represents nowadays) practises with buddhism. Developed 'along' the > silk route may be stretching it a little according to my understanding of > it since Tantric practises were pretty localized ... something the > geography probably contributed to. > Omega Similar tantric practices, and more specifically tantric Buddhist practices, can be found originating in Kashmir, Afghanistan, Tun Huang and Bengal. Doesn't seem very localized to me. -- To ensure my response CC all public replies to email (READ alt.magick.tyagi) (emailed replies may be posted) * http://www.hollyfeld.org/~tyagi/nagasiva.html INTENTIONAL .SIG PROTEST: FUCK SHIT PISS COCKSUCKER MOTHERFUCKER TITS CUNT