Vajrayana is not Tibetan Buddhism (and vice versa)

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confused and unable to express their wisdom. If you look to the Kagyu tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, you will find a long lineage of meditation masters. These individuals were like you and me: at one point in their life they were mired in confusion, and at times they caused harm to others. Somewhere along the way, though, they encountered these Vaj
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from The Buddha Walks into a Bar...: A Guide to Life for a New Generation by Lodro Rinzler
The different yanas contradict each other profoundly. They are not superficially and arbitrarily different. Their fundamental principles are different. They have different concepts of truth, and especially of ultimate truth. For Mahayana, emptiness is the ultimate truth and ultimate goal. It is a shock to be told that in Vajrayana, emptiness is mer... See more
from Yana shock | Vividness
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In contrast, Tibetan Buddhism enlists the imaginal mind of its followers. It accepts the forest of images that we live in and teaches its adepts to plunge in, travel through, and eventually come out on the other side of the forest. The ultimate goal of both great paths is enlightenment by detachment from all forms, verbal or imaginal.
from Kabbalah and the Power of Dreaming by Catherine Shainberg
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