I fail to see the conclusion of the article. Yes, Buddhism is much more than most people think. Yes, it's much different than most people think. Nevertheless, i

I fail to see the conclusion of the article. Yes, Buddhism is much more than most people think. Yes, it's much different than most people think. Nevertheless, if someone gets interested in it, they should do some background research - and very often do. After that, when you deepen your knowledge, you naturally learn much more about the history and culture. In the case of Tibetan Buddhism, it's also a bloody and unpleasant story, with all kinds of degeneration, also of religious nature. It would be naive to expect that one religion would be magically devoid of these. For example, the famous yogi Drukpa Kunley sings about nuns who have sex, and then, ashamed, bury their newborn so that the walls of the monastery are filled with their corpses. Similar things were happening everywhere. Nevertheless, this has nothing to do with the essence of the religion, which in the case of Tibetan Buddhism is Dzogchen and Mahamudra, and which can be practiced without any monasteries, complex rituals, and other elements of Tibetan culture.