I agree with this 100%, it feels like people on both sides of the cultural appropriation debate misrepresent the tibetan connection and misunderstand the word's origins, and I think that does more damage than just simply using the word (which apparently isn't recognized by most modern tibetan buddhists anyway)
what's also funny to me is seeing people claim that tulpamancy is "appropriating buddhist culture" without even mentioning esoteric Tibetan Buddhism specifically; thereby betraying a misunderstanding of how broad Buddhism as a whole actually is. Imagine explaining all this to my partner's dad, a Japanese soto zen practitioner. He would have absolutely no idea what a tulpa is, and no context for understanding any of it!
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Date: 2020-09-01 04:51 pm (UTC)what's also funny to me is seeing people claim that tulpamancy is "appropriating buddhist culture" without even mentioning esoteric Tibetan Buddhism specifically; thereby betraying a misunderstanding of how broad Buddhism as a whole actually is. Imagine explaining all this to my partner's dad, a Japanese soto zen practitioner. He would have absolutely no idea what a tulpa is, and no context for understanding any of it!
--Hikaru