[mtalantikite]

Thanks for your answer, I appreciate it.

> In vajarayana, a monk could have sex with his student as a means of helping them. ... According to the historical Buddha, that person is immediately no longer a monk.

I don't think a monk would be able to if they're ordained and would similarly lose their status in most Tibetan lineages, but a ngagpa could. Doesn't mean it doesn't happen of course and there's definitely a lot of abuse happening. A teacher I took some karmamudra training from wrote a book about these topics that I found very interesting [1].

I'd love to read more about the atman/anatman contradictions, I'll have to do some searching -- thanks!

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40000465-karmamudra