Monday, April 26, 2021

Himalayan Vajrayana Buddhism from Upāya to Human Sacrifice A Case Study of Trashi Yangtse Choeten by Ramin Etesami

"The victim was selected among virgins for the sake of purity.This fact could provide some clues about Bell’s observation regarding the ritualistic burial of children in some sacred Places as children are not yet “tainted” by sexuality. As mentioned above, this idea is also behind the practice of putting children in monasteries or nunneries from very young ages in the Himalayan region which itself amounts to a kind of non-violent virtual human sacrifice."


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