andrewquintman.bsky.social
Buddhism in Tibet & Himalaya | Religion Dept @ Wesleyan U | The Yogin & the Madman | The Life of Milarepa | http://journaloftibetanliterature.org | http://lifeofthebuddha.org | www.andrewquintman.com | #TibetanStudies #BuddhistStudies #seakayaking
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It's possible I made this comparison
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And then remembered I saw that guitar at the amazing rock exhibition at the Met a few years ago.
I often use things like this to demonstrate to my students the power of relics.
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Yeah I agree the small sample size is really important here. I remember that from the last one (I probably have an old twitter thread abt it) but haven’t had time to dig in to this one yet
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Riding on that road in the old days in the rain and deep mud was utterly terrifying. (Really digging this thread btw!)
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Not sure. Ann Gleig in American Dharma did a great job of thinking through differences between "immigrant Buddhists" and "convert Buddhists" in the US. Worth further considering the criteria that cause the latter group to self-identify in that way
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interested in the framing *as much as* the data (itself)
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This is surprising to me though: sharp decline in the number of Buddhists born in the US
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That sounds great. You should redo the poll afterwards
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In grad school I sat in on Bob Sharf’s undergrad lecture about Herrigel’s book…man that was something
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it was right there
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I'm surprised no one has translated this yet
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Interested in petitioning Gesar to "Subdue spirits of madness, exterminate hostile enemies, and terminate the wanderings of quarrelsome evil spirits"?
Here's the invocation, written by Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö (1893–1959)
via @lotsawahouse.org
www.lotsawahouse.org/tibetan-mast...
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Product from last year is running low.
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Looking just at the relationships between Milarepa and Rechungpa + Gampopa (with their intermediaries) gives a striking visual indication of just how much Rechungpa figures in to the narrative.
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One of the things we're doing in Nodegoat is mapping the social relations narrated in The Life of Milarepa.
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Yes! This is the graphic novel we need
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youtu.be/Y-QMtphwlZc?...
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It certainly would be a timely project!
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And if you have a chance to view it, Donagh Coleman's documentary A Gesar Bard's Tale (2014) is well worth the time.
www.imdb.com/title/tt6999...
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the Eighth Kamtrul's story draws on a long history of Gesar narratives that spread across the Tibetan Buddhist world and are still narrated as part of a living bardic tradition.
There's also a rich visual tradition of depicting the warrior Gesar
www.himalayanart.org/search/set.c...
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This version is a lithographic reproduction of a handwritten text, available via the Buddhist Digital Resource Center (BDRC) purl.bdrc.io/resource/MW1...
but there are modern print editions too purl.bdrc.io/resource/MW2...
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Their long form world building and storytelling are A++ but I agree their short fiction really shines. Many of the Expanse shorts add to the story arc more intimately than if they were included in the main series.
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Nodegoat is getting lots of use in Europe but starting to catch on in North America. Wesleyan is becoming a hotspot of Nodegoat herders.
Nodegoat.com
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I had a chance to talk about my ongoing project to map The Life of Milarepa in space & time + social relationships, text composition, etc.
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#ReligionIsAlwaysInTheRoom