David Chapman (Buddhism-for-Vampires.com); Wisdom Quarterly HALLOWEEN SERIES
COMING SOON, BREAKING NEWS: Peaceful Buddhists go on murderous rampage.
COMING SOON, BREAKING NEWS: Peaceful Buddhists go on murderous rampage.
European vampires were killed and given a special postmortem meal -- a stake. Here a female had a brick placed in her mouth to prevent her from feasting on blood (Daily Mail). |
WQ has been sitting on this Bon/Black Magic exposé. For Halloween, we introduce B.F.V. |
Cheater and Sap vamps (Life&Style) |
“Buddhism for vampires? That’s silly. Buddhism and vampires don’t have anything to do with each other -- or do they?”
Surprisingly, vampires have played a significant role in Buddhism in Asia for centuries. They are not a Western invention.
Contemporary vampire fiction -- “preternatural romance” -- provides tools for presenting aspects of Buddhism that are otherwise difficult to communicate.
Vampires in Buddhist history
Vomiting blood (Buddhism-for-vampires.com) |
...No one can say this is an illegitimate topic or some kind of Western commercial distortion. One can combine Buddhism and vampires as a cheap gimmick -- but I believe it is possible to explain Buddhism accurately in the language of the undead. In fact, I believe some aspects of Buddhism are best explained that way.
Vampires, ambiguity, and paradox
Vajrayana is a mix of Bon and Buddhism |
Reality refuses to fit into categories; it is always in flux. When “this” inexplicably turns into “that,” and you love or hate the “wrong” thing: that is paradox. Rejecting ambiguity is, according to Buddhism, the primordial error, and source of all unhappiness. Paradox is resolved through non-duality: allowing the horns of a dilemma to co-exist.
"China accuses me of being devil" (Dalai Lama) |
China really dislikes Dalai Lama and Buddhism |
- Halloween STORM likely to kill everyone on East Coast
- Meet the real-life US vampires (Smithsonian)
- "Vampire" skeletons found (Discovery News)
- National Geographic finds real vampires
- China warns: Some paths are bad and evil!
- Evils of Communist Khmer Rouge in Buddhist Cambodia
- Lama sex abuse calls Buddhist taboos into question
- Name-calling in China: Hitler, Devil, HHDL
- Tibetans self-immolate, Americans use guns
- VIDEO: CIA's CNN dismisses the Kentucky UFO
- PBS: The investigative reporting crisis in America
- PHOTOS: Monster (yakkha) temple protectors
- China on Buddhism: Brainwashed with evils
- SCARY: 14-year-old student punished by Buddhist monk for refusing to learn Buddhism
"But who's more Gothic and Vampiric than us?" |
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