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In the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, it is claimed that the historical Shakyamuni Buddha taught tantra, but that since these are ' secret ' teachings, confined to the guru / disciple relationship, they were generally written down long after the Buddha's other teachings, the Pali Canon and the Mahayana sutras.
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Ma Bufang attacked the Tibetan Buddhist Tsang monastery in 1941.
Tibetan refugees have constructed and opened many schools and Buddhist temples in Dharamshala.
Dukkha ( Pāli ; Sanskrit: ; Tibetan phonetic: dukngal ) is a Buddhist term commonly translated as " suffering ", " stress ", " anxiety ", or " dissatisfaction ".
According to Tibetan Buddhist literature, the age of first Buddha was 1, 000, 000 years and height was 100 cubits while 28th Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama ( 563BC – 483BC ) lived 80 years and his height was 20 cubits.
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The Tibetan Buddhist lama Chögyam Trungpa emphasizes that cessation is a personal experience.
During the Kuomintang Pacification of Qinghai the Muslim General Ma Bufang destroyed Tibetan Buddhist monasteries with support from the Kuomintang government.
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The Hebrew, Buddhist, Hindu lunisolar, Burmese, and Tibetan calendars, as well as the traditional Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, Mongolian, and Korean calendars, plus the ancient Hellenic, Coligny, and Babylonian calendars are all lunisolar.
According to the Tibetan Buddhist tradition based on the lineage texts regarding prayer wheels, spinning such a wheel will have much the same meritorious effect as orally reciting the prayers.
At the end of a practice session, there is a Tibetan Buddhist tradition of dedicating any accumulated merits that one may have gathered during practice to the benefit of all sentient beings.
Category: Tibetan Buddhist practices
Tibetan Buddhism is the body of Buddhist religious doctrine and institutions characteristic of Tibet and certain regions of the Himalayas, including northern Nepal, Bhutan, and India ( particularly in Arunachal Pradesh, Ladakh, Dharamsala, Lahaul and Spiti in Himachal Pradesh, and Sikkim ).
Texts recognized as scripture and commentary are contained in the Tibetan Buddhist canon, such that Tibetan is a spiritual language of these areas.
Buddhist monk Geshe Konchog Wangdu reads Mahayana sutra s from an old woodblock copy of the Tibetan Kanjur
There is a general sense in which any Tibetan Buddhist teacher is called a lama.
True to its roots in the Pāla system of North India, however, Tibetan Buddhism carried on a tradition of eclectic accumulation and systematisation of diverse Buddhist elements, and pursued their synthesis.
According to a Tibetan legendary tradition, Songtsän Gampo also married a Nepalese Buddhist princess, Bhrikuti.
Although they did not succeed in maintaining a presence in Tibet, their texts found their way into the Tibetan Buddhist canon, providing the Tibetans with almost all of their primary sources about the Foundation Vehicle.
The story of these Khotanese monks is recorded the Li yul lung-btsan-pa or ' Prophecy of the Li Country ', a Buddhist history of Khotan which has been preserved as part of the Tibetan Tanjur.
Tibetan and tradition
While the precepts for monks and nuns differ somewhat depending on which tradition one has ordained in ( Tibetan, Thai Theravadan, etc.
By the Himalayan tradition, phowa ( Tibetan ) is the discipline that transfers the mindstream to the intended body.
Tengri may have been synonymous with Tian in Chinese traditions as well as a possible fore-runner to pre-Buddhist Tibetan Bön, also having their tradition root from Siberia, once sect ranging from monotheism, again branches off into animism, causing an ill-defined complex systematized religion.
A Tibetan diaspora has spread Tibetan Buddhism to many Western countries, where the tradition has gained popularity.
In his age the famous tantric mystic Padmasambhāva arrived in Tibet according to the Tibetan tradition.
The Wheel of Time or Kalachakra is a Tantric deity that is associated with Tibetan Tantric Buddhism, which encompasses all four main schools of Sakya, Nyingma, Kagyu and Gelug, and is especially important within the lesser-known Jonang tradition.
A Tibetan tradition mentions that after Songtsän Gampo's death in 649 C. E., Chinese troops captured Lhasa.
The Tibetan scholar Tsepon W. D. Shakabpa believes that the tradition is in error and that " those histories reporting the arrival of Chinese troops are not correct " and claims that the event is mentioned neither in the Chinese annals nor in the manuscripts of Dunhuang.
Buddhist clergy are often referred to as the Sangha and consists of the order of monks ( bhikshus ) and nuns ( bhikshunis ) founded by Gautama Buddha during the 5th century BC, as well as lay priests in the modern era and ngagpas of the Tibetan tradition.
Likewise, there are some lamas ( Buddhist teachers ) of the Tibetan tradition called " ngagpa ," who do not receive monastic ordination.
In the 13th century, it was visited by Phajo Drugom Zhigpo, the Tibetan Lama who first established the Drukpa Kagyu tradition in Bhutan.
For example, the tantra sections of the Tibetan Buddhist canon of texts sometimes include material not usually thought of as tantric outside the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, such as the Heart Sutra and even versions of some material found in the Pali Canon.
As a Tantric Mahasiddha Padmasambhava's contribution ensured that Tibetan Buddhism became part of the Vajrayana tradition.
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It is permissible for a Tibetan nun to receive bhikkhuni ordination from another living tradition, e. g. in Vietnam.
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