Vajrayana is not Tibetan Buddhism (and vice versa) | Vividness
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Vajrayana is not Tibetan Buddhism (and vice versa) | Vividness
Christianity does not have yanas. It does have sects: Catholic, Baptist, Mennonite. So when Westerners first started trying to understand Buddhism, they assumed Buddhist yanas were sects. Mostly this confusion has persisted, and even many scholars still get this wrong.
Yanas are not Buddhist sects | Vividness
Tantra Illuminated: The Philosophy, History, and Practice of a Timeless Tradition
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the view and practice of the Vajrayana,
Reginald A. Ray • In the Presence of Masters: Wisdom from 30 Contemporary Tibetan Buddhist Teachers
In the Chungnan Mountains south of Sian, I once met a Buddhist master who had founded four Buddhist colleges before finally retiring to spend her last years in a mountain hut. She told me in all seriousness that mantras were taught to humans by beings from another world. No doubt their authors were from another world. At the very least, it was a wo
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the Vajrayana does not involve daydreaming, fantasizing, and concocting exotic experiences.