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Hi Andy,

Can you give a link to the article you're talking about, please, because it will be difficult for anyone to comment otherwise.

with kind wishes,

Aloka.

Alas I am not able to do that as it is from a book. Buddha. His life in images by Micael Jordan

For any one who has this book or sees it in a library etc. The aspect on Tibet is on page 149.
In retrospect this was past tense however the fuller text saying: "Padmasabhava had brought with him a distinct form of Mahayana Buddhism known as Vajrayana. One of the more liberal disciplines, Vajrayana leaned toeards ritual and the majic of Tantrism and was happy to permit an unusual degree of sexual licence among the members of its sangha community of monks."

Regarding the aspect on Ching Tu its on page 176.
"Ching Tu, which is closely allied to Zen, focusses on the Amitabha dhyanibuddha as the main object of worship through which to reach paradise and generally tends to be more popular with lay people, not least because it rejects monastic life and celibacy."