Talk:Spiritual warrior

Better Known
Applying the "Better Known" in the about section is relative to what? I suspect it's a weasel word that is out of form with other well known examples of how to construct an about tag. Zulu Papa 5 ☆ (talk) 23:33, 10 March 2010 (UTC)

Buddhist term
If this is indeed a Buddhist term, as opposed to a term made up by self-help authors, I am sure it translates something? As in, a Pali or Sanskrit term? The first step would be to identify this term. --dab (𒁳) 12:12, 8 April 2012 (UTC)

You're right, this article is pretty thin, and I can't believe that someone's using "lamaism" in an article! What year is it, like 1890 or something? This whole article is BS and should be removed entirely.--Joechip123 (talk) 00:03, 30 September 2012 (UTC)

Beyond shambhala
This is incorrect, all the references to spiritual warrior are in the notes in this article, and they go beyond shambhala. See: Rinpoche, Dudjom; Dorje, Gyureme; Kapstein, Matthew for example. Zulu Papa 5 * (talk) 02:50, 23 December 2016 (UTC)

September 2020 - Original Research/Copy-paste problems
This article appears to have veered in the direction of WP:Synth. The first source that defines the topic is a reference to a translation of the Diamond Sutra by Red Pine that I have a copy of- I can't find any indication that it is defined there, and it would be very strange to find it there as it is mostly a translation of Chinese commentaries on the sutra, rather than anything about Tibetan Buddhism. The 'Shakyamuni Buddha' section appears to be a close paraphrase of its one source, which does compare the Sangha to 'spiritual warriors'. I don't have access to the source of the Tibetan Buddhism section. The second source in the Chogyam Trungpa section (which seems to be the main source) is an unavailable magazine article about a book by a self-help writer. A couple of the 'Further reading' were for self-help type books, one of which was by someone claiming to host a 'spiritual traveler'. Chogyam Trungpa and possible some other Tibetan Buddhist teachers do seem to relate the concept to the bodhisattva, but I'm not sure that the concept exists independently of their specific traditions. --Spasemunki (talk) 08:45, 22 September 2020 (UTC)

Spirit Warrior in all Shamanic Traditions
While it is reasonable that the term Spiritual Warrior is inherent to Tibetan Buddhism, it is not correct that the term is limited to Tibetan culture or to Buddhism. Before Buddhism was the Bon Tradition, the Shamanic root in that culture. Spirit Warrior was present then, prior to Buddhist influence. Spirit Warrior is common in China. Prior to the emergence of the Dao tradition, spirit warrior references trace to origins in shamanism. In addition the same is also typical in the Druid Tradition, the Nordic, the Shamanic traditions of the Americas, etc. RogerJahnke (talk) 16:02, 6 October 2022 (UTC)