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Podcast: New Books in Buddhist Studies
Episode: Dagmar Schwerk, "A Timely Message from the Cave" (2020)
Description: Following the globalization of Tibetan Buddhism in the first half of the twentieth century, Indo-Tibetan Buddhist teachings such as MahÄmudrÄ have become increasingly popular around the world. Drawn by teachings that seem to promise practitioners fast-tracked enlightenment through powerful meditative practices and the blessings of the personal principal Guru, MahÄmudrÄ has not only maintained followers from Tibet and Bhutan, but has also attracted scholars and practitioners from the West.InĀ A Timely Message from the Cave,Ā Dagmar Schwerk points out that while the globalization of Tibetan Buddhism has helped the MahÄmudrÄ practitioner community grow on a glo...