icarusancalion

Could you perhaps do a paper giving your take on *why* tantric Buddhism developed from those roots? Why do you think that this thing and that thing interacted with each other to become this whole new fascinating thing? I'm not an standard academician, but I have had occasion to do historical research papers of this sort before. I don't think you have to change your subject so much as you have to reframe it in the context that they want you to approach it from. Basically what they want from a thesis is for you to develop an opinion about something and then defend it. Hence the emphasis on the "why". You just have to critically analyze the history instead of simply reporting it. Does this help any? *is hopeful*