In Tibetan Buddhism the Tibetan Book of the Dead explains the intermediate state of humans between death and reincarnation.

They follow a blend of Tibetan Buddhism mixed with animism.

* Daniel Perdue: Debate in Tibetan Buddhism, Publisher: Snow Lion Publications, 1992, ISBN 0-937938-76-9, EAN 9780937938768

Love has been a practicing Buddhist since 1989, and has studied and practiced both Tibetan and Nichiren Buddhism.

However, Tibetan Buddhism believes that tantric practice makes vegetarianism unnecessary.

Chakras play an important role in the main surviving branch of Indian Vajrayana, Tibetan Buddhism.

The Dalai Lama is a high lama in the Gelug or " Yellow Hat " branch of Tibetan Buddhism.

The event was the beginning of the teacher reincarnation system for the Black-Hat Line of Tibetan Buddhism.

Various sects of Tibetan Buddhism responded to the teacher reincarnation system by creating similar lineages.

Daring Steps Toward Fearlessness: The Three Vehicles of Tibetan Buddhism.

In Tibetan Buddhism, the highest achievement any person can achieve is to become like the " great " female Buddhas ( e. g. Arya Tara ) who are depicted as being supreme protectors, fearless and filled with compassion for all beings.

The idea of a subterranean realm is also mentioned in the Vedic texts such as the Puranas, according to one story in the Puranas there is an ancient city called Shamballa which is located inside the earth, the belief in Shamballa as a city inside the earth is also found in Tibetan Buddhism.

This continues today with the Dharmaguptaka ordination lineage in East Asia, and the Mūlasarvāstivāda ordination lineage in Tibetan Buddhism.

* Tara ( Buddhism ) ( Tara is the female aspect of Avalokitesvara in Tibetan Buddhism.

* Kilaya: A dagger used in Tibetan Buddhism

Drafted by a treaty and a bill of sale, and constituted between 1820 and 1858, the Princely State of Kashmir and Jammu ( as it was first called ) combined disparate regions, religions, and ethnicities: to the east, Ladakh was ethnically and culturally Tibetan and its inhabitants practised Buddhism ; to the south, Jammu had a mixed population of Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs ; in the heavily populated central Kashmir valley, the population was overwhelmingly Sunni Muslim, however, there was also a small but influential Hindu minority, the Kashmiri brahmins or pandits ; to the northeast, sparsely populated Baltistan had a population ethnically related to Ladakh, but which practised Shi ' a Islam ; to the north, also sparsely populated, Gilgit Agency, was an area of diverse, mostly Shi ' a groups ; and, to the west, Punch was Muslim, but of different ethnicity than the Kashmir valley.

The Mongol nobility during the Yuan dynasty studied Confucianism, built Confucian temples ( including Beijing Confucius Temple ) and translated Confucian works into Mongolian but mainly followed the Sakya school of Tibetan Buddhism under Phags-pa Lama.

In the 1576 the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism became the state religion of the Mongols.

The Red Hat sect of Tibetan Buddhism coexisted with the Gelug Yellow Hat sect.

Until the rise of Christianity, Islam and Tibetan Buddhism, the religion largely ceased, especially Buddhism which the rejection of a creator god, Tengri has been heavily diminished or clove in such communities.

Concepts similar to qi can be found in many cultures, for example, Prana in Vedantic philosophy, mana in Hawaiian culture, Lüng in Tibetan Buddhism, and Vital energy in Western philosophy.

With respect to these outer regions, the Qing maintained imperial control, with the emperor acting as Mongol khan, patron of Tibetan Buddhism and protector of Muslims.

* Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo the first western woman to be recognized and enthroned as a tulku in Tibetan Buddhism.

Tibetan Buddhism use the tulku system, an ancient way of finding the reincarnation of a previous deceased lama: they are usually young boys, sometimes of wealthy and influential families and sometimes of peasant families like the current 14th Dalai Lama, that are found and enthroned as the reincarnation of an enlightened person that has already deceased.

* Tenzin Ösel Rinpoche-Spanish-born Tibetan Buddhist and tulku

The Tibetan institution of the tulku as the emanation ( often misunderstood as the rebirth ) of a lama developed during the 12th, 13th, and 14th centuries, as various Schools of Tibetan Buddhism began to accept the possibility that exemplary figures might remain within the human world as institutional teachers, manifesting from one lifetime to the next out of compassion.

The most dramatic — and at that time controversial — innovation was the idea that a tulku could inherit the estate ( Tibetan: labrang ) of their previous incarnation.

The first recognized tulku of this kind within the Vajrayana traditions was the Karmapa, the head of the Karma Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism ; precisely, the first to be recognized as a manifestation was the second Karmapa, Karma Pakshi ( 1204 – 1283 ).

Now in the Tibetan diaspora, tulku are being found all over the world.

Perhaps the most religiously significant such tulku is Tenzin Ösel ( born 1985 ), the child of Spanish parents, who has been recognized as the reincarnation of Thubten Yeshe, an influential Tibetan lama.

* In the book Tulku, by Peter Dickinson, a young boy and his companions, fleeing the Boxer Rebellion in China, encounter Tibetan monks awaiting the birth of a tulku.

Naropa University was founded by Chögyam Trungpa, an exiled Tibetan tulku who was a Karma Kagyu and Nyingma lineage holder, and scholar of comparative religion at Oxford University in England.

He has been recognized by Tibetan Lama Penor Rinpoche as the reincarnation of tulku Chungdrag Dorje, the treasure revealer of Palyul Monastery.

They also had a son, Ossian Kennard MacLise, who was recognized by Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, the 16th Karmapa, as a reincarnation of a Tibetan saint, or tulku, and at age four became a Buddhist monk.

The Karmapa lineage is the most ancient tulku lineage in Tibetan Buddhism, predating the Dalai Lama lineage by more than two centuries.

* Osel Hita Torres-a Tibetan Buddhist tulku

The documentary films The Reincarnation of Khensur Rinpoche ( 1992 ) and Unmistaken Child ( 2008 ) document the lengthy procedure of searching for and finding the reincarnation, or tulku, of a Tibetan lama.

Tsem Tulku Rinpoche, a Tibetan Buddhist tulku of the Gelugpa monastic order who presides over a dharma center in Malaysia, styles himself " H. E.

Jamgön Kongtrül, also Jamgoin Gongzhü in official transcription, is a name of a prominent line of Tibetan Buddhist teachers ( lama ), primarily identified with the first Jamgon Kongtrul, but also the name shared by members of a lineage held by tradition to be his subsequent reincarnations ( tulku ), to date.

Founded in the late 1980s, the founder of this sect is Lu Sheng-yen ( 盧勝彥 ), often referred to by his followers as a tulku, a Tibetan term for a reincarnated teacher or deity.

Geoffrey Samuel ( see bibliography ) finds it significant that " lamas " Yeshe and Zopa had not yet attracted followings among the Tibetan or Himalayan peoples ( Zopa's status as a minor tulku notwithstanding ), and that their activities took place independently of any support or direction from the Tibetan Government in Exile in Dharamsala.

Osel Hita Torres ( born 12 February 1985 in Bubion, Granada ) is a Tibetan Buddhist tulku and aspiring cinematographer from Spain.

Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche ( b. 23 Oct 1964 ) is the title of a tulku lineage of Tibetan Buddhist lamas.