[Buddha-l] Buddhism and psychoactive substances

[jkirk]

>......... Does anyone have any knowledge of a Buddhist lineage that 
>advocates the use of psychoactive substances? Or can anyone refer me to a 
>study of this question? I wouldn't be too surprised to hear that some 
>Ngakpas somewhere had something that they liked to smoke.
>
> If this topic has come up previously, my apologies. Alas, the archives are 
> not searchable.
>
> regards,
> Barnaby Thieme
> http://mailman.swcp.com/mailman/listinfo/buddha-l
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Try this route:
http://www.keithdowman.net/books/dm.htm
... Drukpa Kunley is one of Tibet's foremost saints and yogis and the patron 
saint of Bhutan. [He was a ngakpa.] ....'In Thimphu I ran into a phenomena 
common to both India and Bhutan: reference for the wandering ascetic who 
combines preaching religion with sex and liquor..............

Mushrooms nor bhang etc not mentioned, but if liquor is there, bhang 
couldn't be far behind.
Joanna