>Jenny put this smear most crisply, when she spoke of those "who fantacize
>that Tibettan Buddhism is _unrelated_ to its brutal theocracy,"
Brutal feudalism.
>(this may
>not be an exact quotation, but I think it's close) as if the demystifying
>gesture of saying "Hey, guess what, Tibetan Buddhism comes from a bad place"
>either (a) clarified what the relation between the religious practices
>and the social arrangement _were_ (cause-effect? residual social formations?
>co-enabling institutions?)
The latter.