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Buddhism Beyond Buddhism: Reimagining Tibetan Buddhism as Virtual Praxis for...
This is Virtual Reality: Mandala of Vajradhatu, from Tibet In my last post, I described how various ideas from the Buddhist tradition, such as emptiness, have often been understood in a very limited...
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Knowing your Buddhisms: Distinguishing the Vehicles of Therevada, Mahayana,...
Tantra: Virtual Reality as Worldchanging This post will be largely an attempt to explain, in forms accessible to western ears, the differences between the main branches of Buddhism. This will be done...
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A Brief Map of Indic Thought: Knowing Tantra from Krishna and Vedanta and Beyond
Krisha showing Arjuna what's beneath appearances in the "Bhadavad-Gita" If you’ve ever been curious about Indian thought, yet can’t seem to keep straight the difference between Veda and Vedanta,...
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Buddhism as Practice of Desire: On Non-Dualism and Nirvana
Mandelbrot Buddha: The Buddha is a Principle Beyond Time, Space, and Duality, and so is Nirvana. So Nirvana can't be simply lack of desire... Last night I had dinner with a friend, and mentioned to him...
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Emerging: Or, Why Buddhist Dharma is Like Identification With the Deleuzian...
Your Brain on Emergence: Or, Identifying with the Virtual as the Path of Buddhist Dharma In previous recent posts, I have argued that Buddhist teachings can be thought of as identification with...
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Fana': Sufism’s Notion of Self-Annihilation, or How Rumi Can Explain Why...
An Image of Rumi having a religious dispute: Persian Painting, particularly from the Safavid Renaissance, is one of the notable exceptions to the ban on human depiction, or aniconism, dominant in most...
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Thoughts on Immortality: From a Skeptical Philosopher Who Doesn’t Want to Be...
A Luneberg Lens: A ball shaped lens that increases its degree of refraction the closer you get to the center. Basically, it produces a hologram of a what’s around it from all sides inside of it....
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A Primer on Advaita Vedanta, or Non-Dualist Hinduism: Or, Why Atman is...
One of the most difficult concepts to grasp in any attempt to understand Hinduism in its arguably most complex form of Advaita Vedanta, literally “non-dual end of knowledge,” is that of the Atman. Once...
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The Golden Lion and Indra’s Net: Huayen Buddhism and the Refractive Embryo of...
Many of the most powerful philosophies of the late twentieth century, including those often described as post-strucutralist, as seen in the works of thinkers such as Lacan, Badiou, or Deleuze, have a...
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Nondualism and Semiotics: Philosophy of Language Between East and West
Even a casual reading of secondary sources on non-Western philosophy is likely to quickly turn up the term “non-dualism” with great rapidity, and in fact, it is hardly a controversial assertion to say...
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