Hello everyone,
I am just a beginner studying Tibetan Buddhism for my anthropological fieldwork at a Buddhist center.
So I was wondering how romantic love is viewed in Tibetan Buddhism. I'm guessing that it is viewed as one of the possible causes of suffering.
But what if a Tibetan lama, for an instance, fell in love with a woman... how would he deal with it? Or if it was the other way around - a disciple fell in love with her lama or a monk? They would never act on these feelings, I presume?
What do you think? Have these things happened before? I've heard stories of Buddhist monks falling in love before.
I am just a beginner studying Tibetan Buddhism for my anthropological fieldwork at a Buddhist center.
So I was wondering how romantic love is viewed in Tibetan Buddhism. I'm guessing that it is viewed as one of the possible causes of suffering.
But what if a Tibetan lama, for an instance, fell in love with a woman... how would he deal with it? Or if it was the other way around - a disciple fell in love with her lama or a monk? They would never act on these feelings, I presume?
What do you think? Have these things happened before? I've heard stories of Buddhist monks falling in love before.
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