Ragyapas-The untouchables of the Buddhist society in Tibet.

Later a group consisting of the three major servants of Dalai Lama, eminent officials and troops will collect the boy and his family and travel to Lhasa, where the boy would be taken, usually to Drepung Monastery to study the Buddhist sutra in preparation for assuming the role of spiritual leader of Tibet.

Many Buddhist philosophical works lost in Tibet and elsewhere are preserved in older and purer form in Mongolian ancient texts ( e. g. the Mongolian Kanjur ).

Young Buddhist bhikkhus in Tibet.

Before the modern era, the Bhikkhuni Sangha spread to most Buddhist countries including Burma ( also known as Myanmar ), with the notable exceptions being Tibet and Thailand.

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 ).

In the reign of King Thothori Nyantsen ( 5th century CE ), a basket of Buddhist scriptures arrived in Tibet from India.

While there is doubt about the level of Songtsän Gampo's interest in Buddhism, it is known that he married a Chinese Tang Dynasty Buddhist princess, Wencheng, who came to Tibet with a statue of Shakyamuni Buddha.

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.

She was known in Tibet as Gyim shang Ong co, or, simply, Kim-sheng or Kong-co, and was a devout Buddhist.

Coinciding with the early discoveries of " hidden treasures " ( terma ), the 11th century saw a revival of Buddhist influence originating in the far east and far west of Tibet.

The bhavacakra is painted on the outside walls of nearly every Tibetan Buddhist temple in Tibet and India.

* Atisha, influential Buddhist teacher to Tibet

A more certain prehistoric period has been theorized by historians as that of the state of Lhomon ( literally, southern darkness ) or Monyul ( dark land, a reference to the Monpa aboriginal peoples of Bhutan ), possibly a part of Tibet that was then beyond the pale of Buddhist teachings.

The Mingshi — the official history of the Ming Dynasty compiled later by the Qing Dynasty in 1739 — states that the Ming established itinerant commanderies overseeing Tibetan administration while also renewing titles of ex-Yuan Dynasty officials from Tibet and conferring new princely titles on leaders of Tibet's Buddhist sects.

With the spread of Buddhism, the Buddhist swastika reached Tibet and China.

The use of the swastika by the Bön faith of Tibet, as well as later syncretic religions, such as Cao Dai of Vietnam and Falun Gong of China, can also be traced to Buddhist influence.

Examples include India (" cleft " between its Hindu majority and large Muslim minority ), Ukraine (" cleft " between its Eastern Rite Catholic-dominated western section and its Orthodox-dominated east ), France ( cleft between Sub-Saharan African, in the case of French Guiana ; and the West ), Benin, Chad, Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Togo ( all cleft between Islam and Sub-Saharan Africa ), Guyana and Suriname ( cleft between Hindu and Sub-Saharan African ), China ( cleft between Sinic, Buddhist, in the case of Tibet ; and the West, in the case of Hong Kong and Macau ), and the Philippines ( cleft between Islam, in the case of Mindanao ; Sinic, and the West ).

The Tibetan Buddhist schools, based on the lineages and textual traditions of the Kangyur and Tengyur of Tibet, are found in Tibet, Bhutan, northern India, Nepal, southwestern and northern China, Mongolia and various constituent republics of Russia that are adjacent to the area, such as Amur Oblast, Buryatia, Chita Oblast, the Tuva Republic and Khabarovsk Krai.

The August 2007 International Congress on Buddhist Women's Role in the Sangha, with the support of H. H. XIVth Dalai Lama, reinstated the Gelongma ( Dharmaguptaka vinaya bhikkhuni ) lineage, having been lost, in India and Tibet, for centuries.

His major work is the Seven Treasures, which encapsulates the previous 600 years of Buddhist thought in Tibet.

The prevalence of human sacrifice in medieval Buddhist Tibet is less clear.

In the Buddhist art of India, Bhutan, Nepal and Tibet, yab-yum is the male deity in sexual union with his female consort.

The traditional Buddhist understanding of non-violence is not as rigid as the Jain one, but like the Jains, Buddhists have always condemned the killing of all living beings.

Culture and the arts flourished, with grandiose artworks such as Along the River During the Qingming Festival and Eighteen Songs of a Nomad Flute, along with great Buddhist painters like the prolific Lin Tinggui.

Mipps escaped in the confusion of Syn's death and disappeared from England, but it is said that a little man very much like him is living out his days in a Buddhist Monastery somewhere in the Malay Peninsula, delighting the monks with recounting the adventures of Doctor Syn and the eerie stories of the Romney Marsh and the mysterious Scarecrow and his night riders.

Later, Buddhist philosophers like Nāgārjuna would question whether the dharmas ( momentary elements of consciousness ) truly have a separate existence of their own.

The Chinese Muslim general Ma Bufang of Qinghai presented himself as a Chinese nationalist to the people of China, fighting against British imperialism, to deflect criticism by opponents that his government was feudal and oppressed minorities like Tibetans and Buddhist Mongols.

Ma Bufang also crushed Mongol separatist movements, abducting the Genghis Khan Shrine and attacking Tibetan Buddhist Temples like Labrang, and keeping a tight control over them through the Kokonur God ceremony.

These stupas and other archaeological remains, like foundations of Buddhist buildings Vihara, compound walls and stone baths, are found on many islands of the Maldives.

During the Meiji Restoration from 1868 onwards and in an attempt to eradicate Buddhism Nichiren-temples were forced, just like any other Buddhist school, to focus on funeral and memorial services as their main activity.

New religions like Sōka Gakkai, Shōshinkai, and Kenshōkai trace their origins to the Nichiren Shōshū school, most notably amongst those is Sōka Gakkai which due to its steady growth is regarded today as Japan's largest lay Buddhist organisation.

Instruction in basic fields like writing and reading by Buddhist Monks pre-date the birth of Christ.

I like the Unification Church way of interpreting the Bible, incorporating the Quran and Buddhist scripts ".

Via contacts with Turkic peoples like the Uyghurs, this Sogdian name came to the Mongols, who still name this deity Qormusta Tengri ; Qormusta ( or Qormusda ) is now a popular enough deity to appear in many contexts that are not explicitly Buddhist.

But many other groups are also represented in the Netherlands, like the Order of Buddhist Contemplatives in Apeldoorn, the Thich Nhat Hanh Order of Interbeing and the International Zen Institute Noorderpoort monastery / retreat centre in Drenthe, led by Jiun Hogen Roshi.

Diệm's foreign minister Vũ Văn Mẫu resigned, shaving his head like a Buddhist monk in protest.

* The: zh: 狻猊 | 狻猊, which like to sit down, are represented upon the bases of Buddhist idols ( under the Buddhas ' or Bodhisattvas ' feet ).

Local Buddhist temples are popular spots as people like to give donations and to get their fortunes told during Tết.

Some authors have pointed to similarities between the Buddhist conception of nothingness and the ideas of Martin Heidegger and existentialists like Sartre, although this connection has not been explicitly made by the philosophers themselves.

For the Mahayana Buddhist, the self is māyā like a magic show and so are objects in the world.

In the completion stage of Buddhist Tantra, the practitioner takes on the form of a deity in an illusory body ( māyādeha ), which is like the magician's illusion.

It is also the guiding principle behind devices like the several Chinese Buddhist music boxes that loop chanting of mantras, which in turn was the inspiration of the Buddha machine, an ambient-music generating device.

They supervised the ōmetsuke, machibugyō, ongokubugyō and other officials, oversaw relations with the Imperial Court in Kyoto, kuge ( members of the nobility ), daimyo, Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines, and attended to matters like divisions of fiefs.

The Buddhist Vaisravana, like the Hindu Kubera, is the reagent of the North, a Loka-pala and the Lord of Yakshas.

Since the Meiji Era, Nichiren Shōshū priests, like those of many other Japanese Buddhist sects, have been permitted to marry.

He is particularly interested in the Orthodox, Shiite and Buddhist religions, and many troubled regions like the Caucasus.