The title, meaning " Great Scholar ", is a Tibetan contraction of the Sanskrit paṇḍita ( scholar ) and the Tibetan chenpo ( great ).

According to Professor Jampal Gyathso, a Chinese Scholar and expert in Epic of King Gesar and a Khampa ( Tibetan ) by origin, the present Balti language has all the linguistic characteristics and roots from the Tibetan language.

Buddhist monk Geshe Konchog Wangdu reads Mahayana sutra s from an old woodblock copy of the Tibetan Kanjur

Some of these valleys historically were more accessible from Tibet than Nepal and are populated by people with Tibetan affinities called Bhotiya or Bhutia including the famous Sherpas in Kumbu valley near Mount Everest.

another important point in Tibetan Buddhism, is the famous concept of the Tulku or Trulku, which means that lamas make a " reincarnation ", and the disciples look for the child as the new " body " of their old master.

In his age the famous tantric mystic Padmasambhāva arrived in Tibet according to the Tibetan tradition.

In this way he was also a distant relative to Pierre Bernard's nephew, Theos Bernard, an American scholar of religion, explorer, and famous practitioner of Yoga and Tibetan Buddhism.

41st Sakya Trizin is the reincarnation of two great Tibetan masters: a Nyingmapa lama known as Apong Terton ( Orgyen Thrinley Lingpa ), who is famous for his Red Tara cycle, and his grandfather, the 39th Kyabgon Sakya Trizin Dhagtshul Thrinley Rinchen ( 1871 – 1936 ).

In 1949, as Communist troops advanced, the Nationalist soldiers moved it another 200 km further west to the famous Tibetan Kumbum Monastery or Ta ' er Shi near Xining, which soon fell under Communist control.

Sonam Gyatso publicly announced that he was a reincarnation of the Tibetan Sakya monk Drogön Chögyal Phagpa ( 1235 – 1280 ) who converted Kublai Khan, while Altan Khan was a reincarnation of Kublai Khan ( 1215 – 1294 ), the famous ruler of the Mongols and Emperor of China, and that they had come together again to cooperate in propagating the Buddhist religion.

Another great achievement was the cataloguing of the collections then available in royal libraries of the three famous Tibetan palaces under the supervision of the famous translator Bande sKa-ba dpal-brtsegs with help from his colleagues, Bande chos-kyi snying-po, Lo-tsa-wa Bande debendhara, Bande lhun-po and Bande klu ’- dbang-po etc.

The famous mandala carving and the Tibetan inscription on a rock in village Manthal near Skardo town, which dates back to early 8th century, is one of the best examples of these efforts.

In the days when the siddhas of the later Tibetan traditions flourished in India, i. e. between the 9th and 11th centuries, it was not uncommon for initiates to assume the names of famous adepts of the past.

The famous Tibetan monastery Ga Mamo Tashi Rabten was founded by him.

Sonam Gyatso publicly announced that he was a reincarnation of the Tibetan Sakya monk Drogön Chögyal Phagpa ( 1235 – 1280 ) who converted Kublai Khan, while Altan Khan was a reincarnation of Kublai Khan ( 1215 – 1294 ), the famous ruler of the Mongol Empire and Emperor of China, and that they had come together again to cooperate in propagating the Buddhist religion.

* Xue Rengui, famous early Tang Dynasty general who was is most known for his campaigns against the Korean kingdom Goguryeo, the Tujue Turkish Khaganate, and the Tibetan Tufan empire

The pride of the monks was the monastery's garden which had many exotic flora, such as the Tibetan wild roses presented to the monks by Agvan Dorzhiev, a famous lama.

It is famous for the Kinnaur Kailash, a mountain sacred to Hindus, close to the Tibetan border.

He is famous for successfully resisting Muslim Arab and Tibetan armies and defeating one of Emperor Harsha's successor, King Yashovarman.

Tsongkhapa ( 1357 – 1419 ), whose name means “ The Man from Onion Valley ”, was a famous teacher of Tibetan Buddhism whose activities led to the formation of the Geluk school.

He is credited with opening trade routes to Tibet, though he is most famous for one of his daughters, Bhrikuti, who married a Tibetan ruler named Tsrong-tsong Gompo ( King Srong Tsangampo / Srong btsan sGampo ).

For example, the most famous instance of consort yoga in Tibetan tantra involved its founder, the Indian Mahasiddha Padmasambhava and Yeshe Tsogyal, a Tibetan princess and yogini.

Candali yoga was a key practice of the famous Tibetan yogin Milarepa.

One of the most famous practitioners of Tummo according to the Tibetan tradition was held to be Milarepa.

Formerly an imperial palace, later converted into a Tibetan Buddhist monastery, the Lama Temple is one of Beijing's most famous monasteries.

Tibetan text and translation of a section of the work called, Bzo gnas nyer mkho ' i za ma tog by ' Jam-mgon ' Ju Mi-pham-rgya-mtsho ( 1846 – 1912 ) describing various traditional Tibetan techniques of making inks from different sources of soot, and from earth, puffball s, dung, ser-sha-a yellow fungus, and the fruit of tsi dra ka ( Ricinus communis ).

Occasionally, the mere existence of the treaty has been put into doubt, But its text in Mongolian language has been published by the Mongolian Academy of Sciences in 1982, and in 2007 an original copy in Tibetan language and script surfaced from Mongolian archives.

Pho-ba ' Jag-tshug ma ), a terma text allegedly dating to the time of the Tibetan Empire.

The main text of the First Panchen Lama is ' A root text for the precious Gelug / Kagyu tradition of mahāmudrā: The Main Road of the Triumphant Ones ' ( Tibetan: dGe ldan bka ' brgyud rin po che ' i phyag chen rtsa ba rgyal ba ' i gzhung lam zhes bya ba ).

Although not described in any Tibetan text on stupa symbolism, the stupa may represent the five purified elements:

As in the Tibetan and Devanagari scripts, the signs are suspended below a horizontal line, giving each line of text a visible " backbone ".

* Yogācārabhūmi Database ( Complete marked-up Chinese text with much of the available Sanskrit and some Tibetan )

The ( Sanskrit: स ु वर ् णप ् रभ ा स ो त ् तमस ू त ् र े न ् द ् रर ा ज: ; IAST: suvarṇaprabhāsottamasūtrendrarājaḥ ) ( Chinese: 金光明經 ; pinyin: jīn guāng míng jīng ; Korean: 금광명경 ; Japanese: Konkōmyō Kyō ), ( Tibetan: གས ེ ར ་ འ ོ ད ་ དམ ་ པ ་ མད ོ་ ས ྡེ འ ི་ དབང ་ པ ོ འ ི་ ར ྒྱ ལ ་ པ ོ འ ི་ མད ོ། Wiley: gser ' od dam pa mdo sde ' i dbang po ' i rgyal po ' i mdo ) is a Buddhist text of the Mahayana branch of Buddhism.

* From the Tibetan text.

All texts presumably have a Sanskrit original, although in many cases the Tibetan text was translated from Chinese or other languages.

Probably the best known terma text is the so-called " Tibetan book of the dead ", the Bardo thodol.

The best known terma text is probably the Bardo thodol, or ' Awakening in the Bardo State ', also known as the Tibetan Book of the Dead.

Only Tibetan translations of this Sanskrit text seem to have survived.

This text was translated into Tibetan by sMon grub Shes rab and is known as the Grub thob brgyad cu rtsa bzhi ’ i lo rgyus or “ The Legends of the Eighty-four Siddhas ”.

There exist several Tibetan versions of the list of mahasiddhas based on the Vajrasana text.

So far the oldest known text documenting its use was written in the late fourteen hundreds by the Tibetan doctor Zurkhar Nyamnyi Dorje ( Wylie: Zur mkhar mnyam nyid rdo rje )) in his text: Man ngag bye ba ring bsrel (" Instructions on a Myriad of Medicines ").

The earliest clear record is a Tibetan medical text authored by Zurkhar Nyamnyi Dorje in the 15th Century outlining the tonic propensities of Yartsa gunbu ( Cordyceps sinensis renamed now to Ophiocordyceps sinensis ), especially as an aphrodisiac.

It described in 28 chapters the whole Life of the Buddha from his birth until his entry into Parinirvāna, but during the Muslim invasions of the 10th-12th centuries half of the original text was lost in Sanskrit, and today the second half only exists in Chinese and Tibetan translations.

Although there is no one definitive text, the Chinese compilation so far of just its Tibetan versions has filled some 120 volumes, more than one million verses, divided into 29 " chapters ".

This " One Mind " is none other than the " sphere of the great circle " ( Tibetan: thig le chen po ' i klong ) of " self-awareness " ( Tibetan: rang rig ) of the Samten Migdron a text like the Kulayaraja Tantra that is also of the Semde class of Dzogchen literature and an important historical source of Dzogchen as it was recovered from the Dunhuang manuscripts.