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Buddhism for Vampires
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Buddhism for Vampires is a personal blog at buddhism-for-vampires.com about philosophy and culture. Since 2014, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “Making a Kangling for Chöd”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers cite this blog, by David Chapman, for its critique of New Age Buddhism and for the idea of 'moral inversion'. One comment quotes its origin as a joke about New Age hijacking of Buddhism.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Buddhism For Vampires is a brutal yet cheerful take on the grislier aspects of reality. The paradox of undeath takes us to the beating heart of Buddhism.
Most-linked posts?
- Making a Kangling for Chöd3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-11-05
- Eating the Shadow2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-08-21
What Hacker News says?
7 years ago I had just aborted an internship, my foray into being an employed adult, because I found myself unable to deal with disagreements. Contrary to my naive hope that the confidence boost from being a Professional Software Developer(tm) would solve all my emotional problems I now knew that my limitations would follow me around anywhere I would go. But I had no idea how to change and was too stuck in my own an…
Comment linking /kangling-chod
on “Ask HN: What's the most life-changing blog post you've ever read?”Submitted Making a Kangling for Chöd as a story · 47 points
HN discussionGood guess, I think: >> Buddhism for Vampires began as a joke, over on Vividness. I was writing about the hijacking of Buddhism by New Age space cadets, psychotherapists, politically-correct self-righteous bigots, and “nice” people who fear the real world and want to play make-believe instead. https://buddhism-for-vampires.com/
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on “Making a Kangling for Chöd”Submitted We Are All Monsters as a story · 2 points
HN discussionWorth pointing out that this is a common problem with humans. David Chapman calls it “moral inversion”: https://buddhism-for-vampires.com/black-magic-transformation And the LW article above directly quotes Jung on the shadow, which I described here: https://superbowl.substack.com/p/jungian-psychology-minus-th...
Comment linking /black-magic-transformation
on “The Waluigi Effect: an explanation of bizarre semiotic effects in LLMs”Submitted A practical guide to making femur-flutes as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Making a Kangling for Chöd as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Eating the Shadow as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Making a Kangling for Chöd as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Eating the Shadow as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
