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.

Vajrayana ( Devanagari: वज ् रय ा न ; Oriya: ବଜ ୍ ରଯ ା ନ, Tibetan: ར ྡོ་ ར ྗེ་ ཐ ེ ག ་ པ ་, rdo rje theg pa ; Mongolian: Очирт хөлгөн, Ochirt Hölgön, Chinese: 密宗, mì zōng ) is also known as Tantric Buddhism, Tantrayāna, Mantrayāna, Secret Mantra, Esoteric Buddhism and the Diamond Vehicle.

For Vajrayana Tibetan death rituals, see phowa.

Deity yoga ( Tibetan: lha ' i rnal ' byor ; Sanskrit: Devata ) is the fundamental Vajrayana practice.

Vajrayana has thus become a major inspiration in traditional Tibetan art.

Although there is historical evidence for Vajrayana Buddhism in Southeast Asia and elsewhere ( see History of Vajrayana below ), today the Vajrayana exists primarily in the form of the two major sub-schools of Tibetan Buddhism and Esoteric Buddhism in Japan known as Shingon, with a handful of minor subschools utilising lesser amounts of esoteric or tantric materials.

As a Tantric Mahasiddha Padmasambhava's contribution ensured that Tibetan Buddhism became part of the Vajrayana tradition.

While Vajrayana Buddhism is a part of Tibetan Buddhism in that it forms a core part of every major Tibetan Buddhist school, it is not identical with it.

Buddhist scholar Alexander Berzin refers to " the Mahayana and Vajrayana traditions of Tibetan Buddhism ".

The ' skillful means ' of the Vajrayana in Tibetan Buddhism refers to tantra techniques, Dzogchen ( Tibetan ; Sanskrit: maha-ati ) and Mahamudra ( Tibetan: Chagchen ).

The lineage for Shingon Buddhism differs from that of Tibetan Vajrayana, having emerged from India during the 9th-11th centuries in the Pala Dynasty and Central Asia ( via China ) and is based on earlier versions of the Indian texts than the Tibetan lineage.

In the Highest Yoga Tantra class of the Tibetan Vajrayana Amitābha is considered one of the Five Dhyāni Buddhas ( together with

Amrit ( Tibetan: bDud. rTsi, pronounced " dutsi "), also plays a significant role in Vajrayana Buddhism as a sacramental drink which is consumed at the beginning of all important rituals ( e. g. abhisheka, ganachakra, Homa ).

Maha Ati is a term coined by Chögyam Trungpa, a master of the Kagyu and Nyingma lineages of Tibetan Vajrayana Buddhism.

Bon or Bön ( ) is a branch of Tibetan Vajrayana.

The lofty Tibetan Plateau and Geography of Tibet has had a profound effect on the Bonpo and the shaping of Vajrayana in general.

Among his contributions are the translation of a large number of Tibetan texts, the introduction of the Vajrayana teachings to the West, and a presentation of the Buddhadharma largely devoid of ethnic trappings.

An incident that became a cause célèbre among some poets and artists was the Halloween party at the Snowmass Colorado Seminary in the fall of 1975, held during a 3-month period of intensive meditation and study of the Hinayana, Mahayana, and Vajrayana vehicles of Tibetan Buddhism.

However the Tibetan Buddhist Gelug and Sakya schools also practice mahāmudrā, as does Shingon Buddhism, the other major sub-school of the Vajrayana.

According to the doctrine of some Tibetan schools ( like Theravāda but for different reasons ), only the first of these is recognized.

Below is the list of the ten bhūmis and their descriptions according to the Avataṃsaka Sūtra and The Jewel Ornament of Liberation, a treatise by Gampopa, an influential teacher of the Tibetan Kagyu school.

The Tibetan tantra entitled the " All-Creating King " ( Kunjed Gyalpo Tantra ) also emphasizes how Buddhist realization lies beyond the range of discursive / verbal thought and is ultimately mysterious.

The tsa lung practices such as those embodied in Trul Khor lineages open channels so lung ( Lung is a Tibetan term cognate with vayu ) may move without obstruction.

For example, the 14th Dalai Lama, long insistent on Tibet's history being separate from that of China's, conceded in 2005 that Tibet " is a part " of China's " 5000-year history " as part of a new proposal for Tibetan autonomy.

The name is a combination of the Sino-Mongolian word dalai meaning " Ocean " and the Tibetan word bla-ma ( with a silent " b ") meaning " guru, teacher ".

The current Dalai Lama is often called " His Holiness " ( HH ) by Westerners ( by analogy with the Pope ), although this does not translate to a Tibetan title.

The Dalai Lama has since lived in exile in Dharamshala, in the state of Himachal Pradesh in northern India, where the Central Tibetan Administration is also established.

By the Himalayan tradition, phowa ( Tibetan ) is the discipline that transfers the mindstream to the intended body.

Dukkha ( Pāli ; Sanskrit: ; Tibetan phonetic: dukngal ) is a Buddhist term commonly translated as " suffering ", " stress ", " anxiety ", or " dissatisfaction ".

The Tibetan Buddhist lama Chögyam Trungpa emphasizes that cessation is a personal experience.

The Kuomintang is anti separatist, and during its rule on mainland China, it crushed Uyghur and Tibetan separatist uprisings.

It is one of the most sparsely populated regions in the area and is mainly inhabited by people of Indo-Aryan and Tibetan descent.

Geographically part of the Tibetan Plateau, Aksai Chin is referred to as the Soda Plain.

That appears to be a monist position, but the Madhyamaka views-including variations like Prasangika and Yogacara and the more modern shentong ( which is sometimes criticized as stating the existence of an absolute ) Tibetan position-will refrain from asserting any ultimately existent entity.

The British Library's Stein collection of Chinese, Tibetan and Tangut manuscripts, Prakrit wooden tablets, and documents in Khotanese, Uyghur, Sogdian and Eastern Turkic is the result of his travels through central Asia during the 1920s and 1930s.

* The Tibetan New Year is Losar and falls from January through March.