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.

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.

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.

Most of the human remains that the Chinese exhibit as gruesome evidence of Tibetan human sacrifice are in fact body parts of people who died of natural causes which were collected after sky burial and preserved as relics.

* Lobsang Rampa, who claimed to be a deceased Tibetan Lama possessing the body of Cyril Hoskins and wrote a number of books based on that premise.

According to Tibetan Buddhism and Bön, Dzogchen ( Rdzogs chen or Atiyoga ) is the natural, primordial state or natural condition of the mind, and a body of teachings and meditation practices aimed at realizing that condition.

Chakras, as pranic centers of the body, according to the Tibetan Bon tradition, influence the quality of experience, because movement of prana can not be separated from experience.

Mahāmudrā is a body of teachings that represents the culmination of all the practices of the new translation schools of Tibetan Buddhism, who believe it to be the quintessential message of all of their sacred texts.

According to Tibetan tradition, after death and before one's next birth, when one's consciousness is not connected with a physical body, one experiences a variety of phenomena.

The related " double body symbol " is included at U + 0FCA TIBETAN SYMBOL NOR BU NYIS-KHYIL (< span style =" font-size: 2. 2em ; vertical-align: bottom ;">࿊</ span >), in the Tibetan block, among other symbols used in religious texts.

This bird is predominantly white, including, as its name suggests, white ears, but is not as white in as many places of its body as its close relatives the Tibetan White-eared Pheasant, C. c. drouyni, and the Yunnan White-eared Pheasant, C. c. lichiangnse.

It is known in different spiritual traditions ; " the most sacred body " ( wujud al-aqdas ) and " supracelestial body " ( jism asli haqiqi ) in Sufism, " the diamond body " in Taoism and Vajrayana, " the light body " or " rainbow body " in Tibetan Buddhism, " the body of bliss " in Kriya Yoga, and " the immortal body " ( soma athanaton ) in Hermeticism.

In Tibetan buddhism, this chakra is at the end of the central channel, which in their system runs up the body to the top of the head, and then over and down to the forehead, where it terminates.

Over time, indigenous religious ideas became assimilated by the new Buddhism ; e. g. ' sprul ' became part of a compound noun, ས ྤྲུ ལ ་ ས ྐུ་' sprul. sku ' (" incarnation body " or ' tülku ', and ' btsan ', the term for the imperial ruler of the Tibetan Empire, became a kind of mountain deity ).

In Tibetan Buddhism the seed syllables corresponding to the Three Vajras are: a white oṃ ( enlightened body ), a red āḥ ( enlightened speech ) and a blue hūṃ ( enlightened mind ).

Tibetan Sandgrouse is about 30 – 41 cm long, with a small, pigeon-like head and neck, but sturdy compact body.

Kum Nye and sKu-mNyé are a wide variety of Tibetan religious and medical body practices.

The two terms are different spellings in the Latin alphabet of the same Tibetan phrase ( Wylie: sku mnye ), which literally means " massage of the subtle body ".

Tsampa is also known among Tibetan sportsmen for its ability to provide rapid energy boosts ; the roasting of the flour breaks it down to an easily digestible state, allowing the calories therein to be quickly incorporated by the body.