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The passage I'm reading now has gotten the Dalai Lama in hot water with the queer community at times. Tsongkhapa presents the inappropriate modes of sexual activity, which not only extends to queer sex, but all forms of sodomy, heterosexual or otherwise. The Dalai Lama seems to, at least publicly, interpret this part of the text as referring to only monastic conduct, but this is not stated at all in the text itself.

We're getting into the stuff about Christianity now, and I've enjoyed what I've read so far. I guess my only criticism of the book thus far is that the author could state his thesis a little more clearly. Throughout the book, he makes connections between homophobia and economic instability, so I hope that he will state this thesis outright towards the end of the book

This author clearly knows what he's talking about, but for some reason I'm finding it a little hard to follow his narrative at this point. It might be because he's covering wide swathes of history at one time. Regardless, I'm still enjoying what I'm reading

This is actually a commentary on a commentary, in which Ngulchu Dharmabhadra aligns Tsongkhapa's commentary on the Six Yogas of Naropa with Vajrayogini Practice, which is one of the main practices of Gelug lay people.

I'm shelving this for the time being because the commentary is pretty dry, and I haven't received the practice yet, There's another commentary I want to read right now but I'll probably get back to this one at some point.

This was a fun little chapter about Buddhist hell realms. They are remarkably creative in terms of the tortures they inflict upon beings that are reborn there. All the more reason to take up the path of enlightenment!

I have a huge problem with how Freire depicts the Castro regime as a success of dialogical pedagogy. In my view, the Cuban Revolution was one of the prime examples of how vanguardism can prevent a society from moving beyond Marxist-Leninism in its pursuit of a revolutionary society.

This book is a commentary on the Lama Chopa sadhana, which is perhaps the most important ritual in the entire Gelug tantric arsenal. It allows practitioners to combine the practices of the three main Gelug deities into one streamlined sadhana, and it is predicated on guru yoga, which is the essence of the path.