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In case, you haven't noticed the slip just yet, the author you refer to is actually Chogyam Trungpa.

Canaan - conclusion Neti, neti – not that, not that, said the Indian, with that quibbling back-and-forth tilting of his head. He too would conjure countless descendents, but sired by semen sprinkled on lotus petals and taken up by river spirits. Our populations will grow, he said. But your...

Canaan - continued The Indian brought his hands together in honour of Abram’s God. But he said that the only God was only God speaking, and there was always prior speech and speech beyond. And he began his analogies on the scale of what had already passed and what was to come. For if every...

On his way to Canaan, Abram paused at a modest strip mall (7x7 stores) just outside Babylon. He met an Indian there, over lunch at the food court. They shared a table. Abram settled on the spicy Thai salad with pork dumplings, and the Indian, a little frail from excessive fasting, invoked a...

Thanks Earl. What you're describing here is I believe the "mind-only" view, which you may know isn't shared by all schools of Tibetan Buddhism, such as the dominant Madhyamika. Again the larger question is whether Tibetan Buddhism is making a metaphysical claim and, if so, how that claim squares...

Here I'm referring to Nagarjuna's two truths, conventional and ultimate, which as I understand it refer to the same reality under two aspects and which exist as concepts only in mutual relation. But my question has to do with this idea of a mind continuum which exists somehow eternally and...

In several sources on Tibetan Buddhism - one a book on the Heart Sutra by the Dali Lama - I've come across the idea of a more or less eternal continuum of mind (whether unitary or pluralist I'm not sure), and connected with this the idea of mind being independent of the other aggregates because...