Modern Tantric Buddhism

Embodiment and Authenticity in Dharma Practice

This essential guide to socially engaged Tantric Buddhism reveals how modern practitioners can use the wisdom of the Vajrayana to confront systems of power and abuse.

Today, a new generation of Buddhists searches for ways to adopt Vajrayana while staying true to its historical legacy. Modern Tantric Buddhism unpacks the principles and applications of this esoteric practice in an accessible and meaningful manner, connecting its roots to a socially engaged, modern-day dharma. Taking a traditional Tibetan pedagogical approach, Lama Justin von Bujdoss divides the book into 3 thematic sections:
 
• Body, as it applies to physicality and embodiment
• Speech, or ethical action
• Mind, the context of awakening
 
Von Bujdoss challenges assumptions about what it means to be a socially engaged Buddhist, and presents Tantra as an ideal vehicle for critically examining today’s most pressing social issues while confronting the structural inequities of patriarchy, sexism, colonialism, and racism within Buddhist institutions.

OUTSTANDING

I have read/ listened to many books about Buddhism.
This book is definitely among the best.
So glad that I also have the written version.
It is a book to come back to time and again.
There are different YouTube tutorials by Justin von Bujdoss
The narrator, A’rese Emokpae, is a pleasure to listen to.
My thanks to all involved, JK.