However, some Tibetan may prefer Islam, so he can follow it.

However, up until World War II, Tibetan officials were allowed to administer Tawang with complete authority.

However, each branch of Mahayana Buddhism selects which sutra to follow, and some branches, including the majority of Tibetan and Japanese Buddhists, do eat meat, while many Chinese Buddhist branches do not.

However, Nepal Bhasa, the original language of Kathmandu, is non-tonal, as are several Tibetan dialects and many other Tibeto-Burman languages.

However, there have been doubts about the authority of the Tibetan signatories to conclude such a treaty, and therefore about whether it constitutes a valid contract.

However, other scholars do not accept the tradition that separates Bon from Buddhism ; Christopher Beckwith calls Bon " one of the two types of Tibetan Buddhism " and writes that " despite continuing popular belief in the existence of a non-Buddhist religion known as Bon during the Tibetan Empire period, there is not a shred of evidence to support the idea ...

However, the Bonpo remained stigmatised and marginalised until 1977, when they sent representatives to Dharamsala and Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, who advised the Tibetan parliament-in-exile, the Assembly of Tibetan People ’ s Deputies, to accept Bon members.

" However, she said had she known that Trungpa began having sexual relations with women at age thirteen, she would not have declined, considering that in the higher stages of Tibetan Buddhist tantra, sexual relations ( especially with tertöns ) are a means of enhancing spiritual insights.

However the Tibetan Buddhist Gelug and Sakya schools also practice mahāmudrā, as does Shingon Buddhism, the other major sub-school of the Vajrayana.

However, within Tibetan Buddhism more and more western students are becoming acquainted with this school.

However, the concurrent Tang campaign against the Tibetan Empire was proceeding more successfully, with the campaign to capture the Tibetans ' Central Asian territories appearing to be near to success.

However, after Andrade left there was a revolt among Tibetan Lamas and the church was pulled down.

However, in May 1881, this Lama sold Kinthup as a slave to another Tibetan lama.

However there are a significant number of Daurs who have taken up Lamaism ( Tibetan Buddhism ).

However, his esteem for Tibetan manners and religion was not welcomed by his Church: " The late Abbé Huc pointed out the similarities between the Buddhist and Roman Catholic ceremonials with such a naïveté, that, to his surprise, he found his delightful ' Travels in Thibet ' placed on the ' Index '.

However, some restrictions of Tibetan Buddhism are due to controversies about its hierarchy, and the issue of the succession of Tenzin Gyatso the current 14th Dalai Lama ( who wasn't invited to the World Buddhist Forum ).

However there is a " partial genetic continuity between the Paleolithic inhabitants and the contemporary Tibetan populations ".

Treaties regarding Tibet were concluded between Britain and China in 1886, However, the Chinese distrust him, believing that he has not really given up the quest for Tibetan independence.

However, in The Buddha from Dolpo: A Study of the Life and Thought of the Tibetan Master Dolpopa Sherab Gyaltsen, scholar Cyrus Stearns details that the writings of Dolpopa Sherab Gyaltsen ( 1292 – 1361 ) and even those of Sakya proponents of zhentong were sealed and banned from publication and study, and that the Jonang monks and nuns forcibly were converted to the Gelug lineage.

However people migrated to this area in different periods of ancient times on account of different reasons, and after merging in the prevailing Tibetan society, gave birth to a new civilization.

However, the general view of what is and is not buddhavacana is broadly similar between East Asian Buddhism and Tibetan Buddhism.

However, as an economic activity, Tibetan rugmaking provides valuable cash income for rural communities who weave in the winter months.

( However, according to the Jōgū Shōtoku Hōō Teisetsu, Buddhism was introduced in 538.

However, similar explanations can be claimed for the spread of Islam and Buddhism — yet none of them are historical explanations.

However, the followers of Buddhism usually avoid the term God, for it savors so much of Christianity, whose spirit is not always exactly in accord with the Buddhist interpretation of religious experience.

However, according to Idries Shah, the Sufi philosophy is universal in nature, its roots predating the rise of Islam and the other modern-day religions, save for perhaps Buddhism and Jainism ; likewise, some Muslims consider Sufism outside the sphere of Islam.

However, the kami played a special role in protecting Buddhism and allowing its teachings of compassion to flourish.

However, the attempt did set the stage for the arrival of state Shinto, following the Meiji Restoration ( c. 1868 ), when Shinto and Buddhism were separated ( shinbutsu bunri ).

However, Buddhism doesn't focus on materialism.

However, the differences between the Sanskrit and Chinese terminology lead to some initial misunderstandings and the eventual development of East Asian Buddhism as a distinct entity.

However, Buddhism would later be persecuted by the state and decline in influence.

However another reason for why this may be is that, in Manichaeism, the religions of Zoroastrianism, Christianity and Buddhism were in fact deviations of the true religion that Mani taught and in a way they were the same religion, hence making it easier to identify the cosmological figures of Mani with the cosmological figures of Zoroastrianism.

However, there is no formal God in Buddhism, although Buddhism does not specifically oppose monotheism.

However, tension soon arose as the Tendai community began taking steps to suppress both Zen and Jōdo Shinshū, the new forms of Buddhism in Japan.

However, several vassals of the Kara-Khitan practiced Nestorian Christianity, which may have contributed to the legend, as well as the possibility that the Europeans, who were unfamiliar with the concept of Buddhism, assumed that the leader must have been Christian.

However, followers of Nichiren Buddhism consider Myōhō Renge Kyō to be the name of the ultimate law permeating the universe, and the human being is at one, fundamentally with this Law and can manifest realization, or Buddha Wisdom ( attain Buddhahood ), through Buddhist Practice.

However, in Buddhism, Jainism, and some forms of Hinduism, the Sacred lies outside the flux of the material world ( called maya, or " illusion "), and one can only reach it by escaping from the cycles of time.

However, Tibetans still differentiate between Bon and Buddhism, referring to members of the Nyingma, Shakya, Kagyu and Gelug schools as nangpa, meaning " insiders ," but to practitioners of Bon as " Bonpo ," or even chipa (" outsiders ").

However, Buddhism denies the existence of a permanent or static entity that remains constant behind the changing bodily and non-bodily components of a living being.

" However, Butterfield also notes that " This personal secrecy is common with gurus, especially in Vajrayana Buddhism ," and acknowledges that Trungpa's organization is anything but a cult: " a mere cult leaves you disgusted and disillusioned, wondering how you could have been a fool.

However, it has not been widely confirmed that these missionaries arrived in China or that they were responsible for establishing the teachings of Buddhism there.

However, Buddhism was often associated with Daoism in its ascetic meditative tradition, and for this reason a concept-matching system was used by some early Indian translators, to adapt native Buddhist ideas onto Daoist ideas and terminology.