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.

Others, who regard the Buddha as simply an enlightened human being, see the Dharma as the essence of the " 84, 000 different aspects of the teaching " ( Tibetan: chos-sgo brgyad-khri bzhi strong ) that the Buddha gave to various types of people, based upon their individual propensities and capabilities.

In Mahayana Buddhism, which includes Zen and Tibetan Buddhism, the concept is related to the Bodhisattva, an enlightened being devoted to the liberation of others.

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.

In the context of Tibetan Buddhism, tülku is used to refer to the corporeal existence of enlightened Buddhist masters in general.

In Tibetan Buddhism the seed syllables corresponding to the Three Vajras are: a white oṃ ( enlightened body ), a red āḥ ( enlightened speech ) and a blue hūṃ ( enlightened mind ).

In Vajrayana Buddhism, an Ishta-deva or Ishta-devata ( Sanskrit: इष ् टद े वत ा) ( Yidam in Tibetan ) is a fully enlightened being who is the focus of personal meditation, during a retreat or for life.

# The inner class of dakini is the dakini of the mandala, a meditational deity ( Tibetan: yidam ) and fully enlightened Buddha who helps the practitioner recognise their own Buddhahood.

However, this Dharma Protector's precise nature as either an enlightened being or a worldly being has been the subject of debate among some adherents of Tibetan Buddhism since his appearance in the 17th century.

* Iṣṭha-deva ( tā ) ( Buddhism ): In Vajrayana Buddhism, a Yidam ( Tibetan ) or Ishtadevata ( Sanskrit ) is a fully enlightened being who is the focus of personal meditation, during a retreat or for life.

The term Shambhala Buddhism was introduced by Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche in the year 2000 to describe his presentation of the Shambhala teachings, originally conceived by Chögyam Trungpa as secular practices for achieving enlightened society, in concert with the Tibetan Buddhist Kagyu and Nyingma lineages.

Gesar of Ling, a mythical Tibetan king, is also an important figure to Shambhala Buddhists, to whom he represents an example of enlightened wisdom manifesting in the world as a leader.

* 1924 – Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, 16th Karmapa, Tibetan spiritual leader ( d. 1981 )

* 1967 – Khandro Rinpoche, Tibetan spiritual leader

In Mongolian ( Baga Holgon ) term for Hinayana also means " small " or " lesser " vehicle, while in Tibetan there are at least two words to designate the term, theg chung () meaning " small vehicle ", and theg dman () meaning " inferior vehicle " or " inferior spiritual approach ".

* 1985 – Ogyen Trinley Dorje, Tibetan spiritual leader, 17th Karmapa Lama

He reflects that spiritual literature, including the works of Jacob Boehme, William Law and the Tibetan Book of the Dead, talk of these pains and terrors.

Texts recognized as scripture and commentary are contained in the Tibetan Buddhist canon, such that Tibetan is a spiritual language of these areas.

Whichever may be the case, Tibetan Buddhists today trace their spiritual roots to Indian masters such as Padmasambhāva, Atiśa, Tilopa, Naropa and their later Tibetan students.

After a series of victories over rival subsect leaders and Tibetan invaders, Ngawang Namgyal took the title shabdrung ( At Whose Feet One Submits, or, in many Western sources, Dharma Raja ), becoming the temporal and spiritual leader of Bhutan.

Traditionally, Bhutanese medicine has been influenced by traditional Tibetan medicine and also some aspects of Indian medicine, particularly the " Three Humors of bile, wind and phlegm " that " dictates the state of our physical and spiritual health.

In the Tibetan tradition, the guru is seen as the Buddha, the very root of spiritual realization and the basis of the path.

Recognized both by Tibetan Buddhists and by other spiritual practitioners and scholars as a preeminent teacher of Tibetan Buddhism, he was a major, albeit controversial, figure in the dissemination of Tibetan Buddhism to the West, founding Vajradhatu and Naropa University and establishing the Shambhala Training method.

" 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.

The Khalkha Jebtsundamba Khutuktus (, Javzandamba Khutagt ; Tibetan: ར ྗེ་ བཙ ུ ན ་ དམ ་ པ ་ Jebtsundamba ; literally, " Holy Venerable Lord ") are the spiritual heads of the Gelug lineage of Tibetan Buddhism in Mongolia.

Secular Tibetan music survived the Cultural Revolution more intact than spiritual music, especially due to the Tibetan Institute of Performing Arts, which was founded by the Dalai Lama shortly after his self-imposed exile.

* Trijang Chocktrul Rinpoche, Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader

In 1951, Sangharakshita met the German-born Lama Govinda, who was the first Buddhist Sangharakshita had known " to declare openly the compatibility of art with the spiritual life ", and who gave Sangharakshita a greater appreciation for Tibetan Buddhism.

Like many Tibetan Buddhist groups, the FPMT does not have " members " per se, or elections, but is managed by a self-perpetuating board of trustees chosen by its " spiritual director " ( head lama ).

Tenzin Gyatso – who was not only the spiritual leader of Gelug Buddhism, the major branch of Tibetan Buddhism, but also the reputed traditional political ruler of Tibet – is in exile, and China currently intends to elect its own 15th Dalai Lama.