Buddhism was massively invaded by tantra, and the Vajrayana tradition
was born. Both in depending on the practitioner’s identification with
gods/demons...and in drawing power from impurity, Buddhist tantra
is paradoxical Buddhism and has turned the tradition on its head....
But it has been recolonised by Buddhist ethics: its purposes are never
immoral, but the allegorical dramas enacted in Buddhist ritual and
visualised by its practitioners always witness the triumph of good over
evil, and are interpreted as leading to Enlightenment. In other words,
what makes the Vajrayana Buddhist is its ethics (Gombrich 1997:
163–64).116 Buddhism in India