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Ben P. Joffe
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Anthropology PhD from South Africa based in Denver. Tibetan& Buddhist Studies, Western esotericism, religion, gender, history. ❤️ur work, hope u win
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Canadian Journal of Buddhist Studies
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28. sij |
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[Open-access #PhD Thesis] “White Robes, Matted Hair: Tibetan Tantric Householders, Moral Sexuality, and the Ambiguities of Esoteric Buddhist Expertise in Exile" by @joffe_p : bit.ly/2NPtosq
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Greg Walton
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22. sij |
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read @joffe_p, a #Tibetan Studies anthropologist, (& himself, not unlike a character out of a @GreatDismal novel):
tracking how representations of tulpa (sprul pa, #སྤྲུལ་པ) periodically surface in popular culture:
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Greg Walton
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22. sij |
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curious about the etymology of Tulpagenics™, the secretive #AI startup in #Agency? pic.twitter.com/HV83PJATwA
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Ben P. Joffe
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20. sij |
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The fear with that approach is of course that one ends up giving each scholarly camp too little of what they want or expect but i hope there are some useful connections and directions at least
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Ben P. Joffe
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20. sij |
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I tried to write about Vajrayana for anthropologists who had never heard of it (few anthropologists I meet have any general exposure to tantric traditions AS tantric traditions) while also speaking to less comparative, more narrowly focused Tantra/Tibetan/Buddhist Studies too
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Ben P. Joffe
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20. sij |
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@Meaningness I hope you found there was adequate context in the thesis itself for the myriad esoteric things I touched on all too briefly! twitter.com/Meaningness/st…
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Ben P. Joffe
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Ben P. Joffe
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19. sij |
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If peer reviewed work published by a major academic press is, as Kingsepp claims, using a fictional role playing game manual unironically as a source of information about actual Tibet-Germany political history I would be very worried!
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Ben P. Joffe
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19. sij |
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The Trimondis have virtually zero scholarly credibility in Tibetan Studies. To see them foregrounded as a credible source in the book alarms me.
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Ben P. Joffe
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19. sij |
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@yalepress @ekurlander I find this fact/sourcing checking critique and review of ‘Hitler Monster’s’ by Dr Eva Kingsepp quite concerning as a Tibetan and Esotericism Studies scholar. Serious implications re peer review here. Has any response been issued? academia.edu/40438780/Schol… pic.twitter.com/IJFYbyvx5u
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Ben P. Joffe
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18. sij |
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I don’t talk that directly about the pizza effect, which was a term invented by a Tantra scholar to discuss the globalization of yoga, in the dissertation but do offer more thoughts on it in this older piece on singing bowls:
savageminds.org/2015/10/31/tri…
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David Chapman
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16. sij |
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Alexandra David-Neel (1933) on ngakpas; quoted in @joffe_p’s thesis pic.twitter.com/isvObkNN5C
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Ben P. Joffe
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16. sij |
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Glad to hear it! Appreciate the shares! :) 🙏
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Ben P. Joffe
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16. sij |
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It’s a lovely quote, but doesn’t seem too well-known! I made sure to do my own translation and find a way to include it for that reason!
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Ben P. Joffe
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14. sij |
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Haha! How does the program deal with ngakpa? ‘Uhnn-gak-par’?
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Ben P. Joffe
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13. sij |
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Look very much forward to reading that!
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Ben P. Joffe
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13. sij |
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Auspicious tendrel རྟེན་འབྲེལ་ perhaps?!
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Ben P. Joffe
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13. sij |
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Is this really the simplest/only way to render the pdf if using a phone or tablet? It seems very user unfriendly, especially considering that it seems like more people read ebooks on their phones and tablets than on PCs or laptops these days!
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Ben P. Joffe
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13. sij |
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Thank you! One point of feedback: I’ve received many messages from would-be readers/downloaders on smartphones & tablets saying they having a really hard time seeing & downloading the thesis. I’ve sent them this link of instructions: support.proquest.com/articledetail?…
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Ben P. Joffe
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13. sij |
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You’d think the first priority would be to make the file easily accessible on a phone. Ridiculous!
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