The Kuomintang was extensively involved in the Kham region, recruiting the Khampa people to both oppose the Dalai Lama's Tibetan government, fight the Communist Red Army, and crush the influence of local Chinese warlords who did not obey the central government.

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

In Tibet, over 6, 000 monasteries were destroyed, often with the complicity of local ethnic Tibetan Red Guards.

He Long's force was driven further west than the First Red Army, all the way to Lijiang in Yunnan province, then across the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain massif and through the Tibetan highlands of western Sichuan.

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 ).

Sherpas belong to the Nyingmapa, the " Red Hat Sect " of Tibetan Buddhism.

* Red Hat sect, a sect of Tibetan Buddhism

The Drukpa Kargyu school (), or simply Drukpa school, sometimes called either Dugpa or " Red Hat sect " in older sources, is a branch of the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism.

Shamarpa (; literally, " Person ( i. e. Holder ) of the Red Crown "), also known as Shamar Rinpoche or more formally Kunzig Shamar Rinpoche is a lineage holder of the Karma Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism and the mind manifestation of Amitabha Buddha, He is traditionally associated with Yangpachen monastery near Lhasa.

As both a Chinese / Tibetan and a global youth leader, Rinzinwangmo dedicates much of her time and energy to her ongoing roles with numerous global charities and organizations: namely the All-China Youth Federation, Tibet Red Cross, Snowland Great Rivers Environmental Protection Association, and several orphanages and eye camps in the Tibetan ethnic regions.

In the epilogue, Westhouse struggles through a Tibetan blizzard in 1933 and rescued by Manny Chavez ( one of the pseudonyms of the Red Dragon, who appears as Cortez in TLJ ).

The Red Hot Chili Peppers played their second reunited concert with guitarist John Frusciante as a warm-up for their performance the next day at the Tibetan Freedom Concert which was held at RFK Stadium in Washington, D. C.

The Nyingmapa, a Red Hat sect of Tibetan Buddhism, incorporate mysticism and local deities shared by the pre-Buddhist Bon religion, which has shamanic elements.

Mr. Burns and Smithers come to the town square in disguise to Homer to show that his next assignment is to throw a pie in the face of the Tibetan Buddhism spiritual teacher, the Dalai Lama ( because according to Mr. Burns " all his talk of peace and love is honking off my Red Chinese masters ").

In Tibetan Buddhism, the Red Hat sect or Red Hat sects, named for the colour of the monks ' hats at formal occasions, includes the three oldest of the four main schools of Tibetan Buddhism, namely:

In November 1935, the Second Red Army, led by He Long, set out on its own Long March, driven further west than the First Red Army, all the way to Lijiang in Yunnan province, then across the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain massif and through the Tibetan highlands of western Sichuan.

The 15th-century Blue Annals, a seminal document of Tibetan Buddhism, reports upon how in Tibet the so-called " 18 robber-monks " slaughtered men and women for their tantric ceremonies.

According to the Blue Annals, new king of the Western Tibetan kingdom of Guge by the name of Lha Lama Yeshe Yod, however, was a strict believer in Dharma and so sent his academic followers to learn and translate some of the Sanskrit Buddhist texts.

The Blue Annals () completed in 1476, authored by Gölo Zhönnupel ( Tibetan: gos lo gzhon nu dpal, 1392 – 1481 ), is a historical survey of Tibetan Buddhism with a marked ecumenical view, focusing upon the dissemination of various sectarian traditions throughout Tibet.

Chinese transcriptions of the Han or the Tang also infer an original form Küchï, but the form Guzan, representing, is attested in seventh century Old Tibetan ( in the Old Tibetan Annals, s. v.

* Deb-Ther-Dkar-Po, The White Annals, Tibetan Freedom Press, Darjeeling, 1964.

The king's minister, Myang Mang-po-rje, with the aid of troops from Zhang Zhung, defeated the Sumpa ( Chinese: Supi ) people in north-eastern Tibet circa 627 ( Old Tibetan Annals l. 2 ).

According to the Tibetan Annals, Songtsän Gampo must have died in 649, and, in 650, the Tang emperor sent an envoy with a " letter of mourning and condolences ".

Whatever the case, both the Tang Annals and the Tibetan sources agree that, since Mune Tsenpo had no heirs, power passed to his younger brother, Sadnalegs, who was on the throne by 804 CE.

Although originally the site of his castle or fort, the Tibetan Annals have revealed that Pabonka was converted into a monastery, possibly under the reign of the second great Buddhist king of Tibet Trisong Detsen.

In 1988, Hu was transferred to become Party Regional Committee Secretary of the Tibetan Autonomous Region, the restive area's number-one figure, while also taking on the role of Political Commissar of the local People's Liberation Army units.

Despite claims to the contrary, there are hundreds of higher freshwater lakes in the world, including a larger and higher freshwater lake at above sea level and 495 km < sup > 2 </ sup > in size, Angpa Tso ( East Chihpuchang Hu ), further east on the Tibetan Plateau at 33-24N 90-17E.

* Within the PRC, the two western regions of Xinjiang and Tibet are also the focus of secessionist calls by the Tibetan Independence Movement and East Turkestan Islamic Movement.

However, other scholars do not accept the tradition that separates Bon from Buddhism ; Christopher Beckwith calls Bon " one of the two types of Tibetan Buddhism " and writes that " despite continuing popular belief in the existence of a non-Buddhist religion known as Bon during the Tibetan Empire period, there is not a shred of evidence to support the idea ...

Yuzo Takada sometimes calls her the three-eyed elf girl from China, but she wears traditional Tibetan clothes.

The Sanskrit term Heruka was translated into both Chinese and Tibetan as " blood drinker ," which scholar Ronald Davidson calls " curious ," speculating that the nonliteral translation derived from an association the term has with cremation grounds and ' charnel grounds ' ( Sanskrit: śmāśāna ) ( which absorb the blood of the dead ).

In Trungpa's presentation, spiritual materialism can fall into three categories — what he calls the three " Lords of Materialism " ( Tibetan: lalo literally " barbarian ") — in which a form of materialism is mistaken to bring long term happiness but instead only brings short term entertainment, followed by longer term suffering:

When Prithvi Narayan Shah took over, he found that it would be a great loss to him if he conceded to the Tibetan demands.

The opposing principles of skepticism and guru devotion are reconciled with the Tibetan injunction to scrutinise a prospective guru thoroughly before finally adopting him as such without reservation.

Later Turnbull moved to Dharamsala, India where he took the monks ' vow of Tibetan Buddhism, given to him by the Dalai Lama.

A key UNPO goal was to replicate the success of the 14th Dalai Lama's propagating of the Tibetan independence message, and they often mentioned his name in the early years of the organization, as well as including in publications pictures of him visiting UNPO and supporting statements he made of the organization.

It has been claimed that Weaverville was an inspiration for the remote paradise of Shangri-la from British author James Hilton's " Lost Horizon ", but this is the result of a misinterpretation of a comment by Hilton in a 1941 interview, in which he said that Weaverville reminded him of Shangri-La .. Junction City ( about 8 miles from Weaverville ) has a Tibetan Buddhist center.

At the end of 1968, the new abbot, the Reverend Flavian Burns, allowed him the freedom to undertake a tour of Asia, during which he met the Dalai Lama in India on three occasions, and also the Tibetan Buddhist Dzogchen master, Chatral Rinpoche, followed by a solitary retreat near Darjeeling. In Darjeeling, he befriended, Dr. TY Pemba, a prominent member of the Tibetan community.

I do consider him to be the father of Tibetan Buddhism in the United States.

Govinda had begun his explorations of Buddhism in the Theravada tradition, studying briefly under the German-born bhikkhu, Nyanatiloka Mahathera ( who gave him the name Govinda ), but after meeting the Gelug Lama, Tomo Geshe Rinpoche, in 1931, he turned towards Tibetan Buddhism.

Ani Pema first met Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche in 1972, and at the urging of Chime Rinpoche, she took him as her root guru (" Ani " is a Tibetan honorific for a nun ).

Mara ( Sanskrit, also Māra ; Tibetan Wylie: bdud ; ), in Buddhism, is the demon that tempted Gautama Buddha by trying to seduce him with the vision of beautiful women who, in various legends, are often said to be Mara's daughters.

Six thangkas remain portraying the emperor as Manjuśrī and Tibetan records of the time refer to him by that name.

Treaties regarding Tibet were concluded between Britain and China in 1886, However, the Chinese distrust him, believing that he has not really given up the quest for Tibetan independence.

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

He discovered a new species of antelope which was named after him, the Tibetan Antelope Pantholops hodgsonii.

It should be borne in mind, that Evans-Wentz never studied the Tibetan language and that the lama who did the main translation work for him was of the Gelukpa Sect and is not known to have actually studied or practiced Dzogchen.

Zhang insisted on turning southward to establish a new base in the regions inhabited by Tibetan and Qiang minorities, which later proved to be a disaster, causing Zhang to lose over 75 % of his force and eventually forced him to return to the communist base in Shaanxi, as Mao correctly pointed out the way it should.

A patron-priest relationship began in 1253 when a Tibetan priest, Phagspa, visited Kublai Khan he became so popular that he was made Kublai ’ s spiritual guide and later appointed by him to the rank of priest king of Tibet and constituted ruler of ( 1 ) Tibet Proper, comprising the thirteen states of U-Tsang Province ; ( 2 ) Kham, and ( 3 ) Amdo.

In the prologue, a ritual in a Tibetan monastery sends him to Arcadia but he is instead trapped in Vagabond's realm and attacked by the " Undreaming ".

Droom had powers of telepathy and hypnotic suggestion taught him by a Tibetan lama who had requested that someone travel from the U. S. to give him medical attention ( later retconned as the Ancient One, the same sorcerer who trained Doctor Strange ).

Tibetan Buddhism also attracted him, but he found it " unnecessarily complicated.

In the Batman story " Tulpa ", an American national of Tibetan heritage embodies his own hatred and rage in the form of a terrible demon, a tulpa he names and gives the shape of Mahakala, to defend him from the depredations of a gang of criminals who extort him.

The villagers were angry and set off to look for Milarepa, but his mother got word ( Tibet's Great Yogi Milarepa: A Biography from the Tibetan ) to him, and he sent a hailstorm to destroy their crops.