The Dalai Lama is a high lama in the Gelug or " Yellow Hat " branch of Tibetan Buddhism.

* 2008 – Trichen Jurme Kunzang Wangyal, the eleventh Mindrolling Trichen, Tibetan Buddhist lama of the Nyingma school ( b. 1930 )

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

There is a general sense in which any Tibetan Buddhist teacher is called a lama.

* April 10 – After several invitations by the Yongle Emperor of China since 1403, the fifth Karmapa of the Karma Kagyu sect of Tibetan Buddhism, the lama Deshin Shekpa, finally visits the Ming Dynasty capital, then at Nanjing.

* The Tibetan lama Je Tsongkhapa of the Gelug Buddhist sect declined the offer of the Yongle Emperor of China to appear in the capital at Nanjing, although he sent his disciple Chosrje Shākya Yeshes, who was given the title " State Teacher ".

The consolidation of Bhutan occurred in 1616 when Ngawanag Namgyal, a lama from western Tibet known as the Shabdrung Rinpoche, defeated three Tibetan invasions, subjugated rival religious schools, codified the Tsa Yig, an intricate and comprehensive system of law, and established himself as ruler over a system of ecclesiastical and civil administrators.

Buddhism would not see a true revival in Chinese society until the Mongol rule of the Yuan Dynasty, with Kublai Khan's sponsorship of Tibetan Buddhism and Drogön Chögyal Phagpa as the leading lama.

The town has many other privately owned emporiums which deal with thangkas, paintings, masks, brassware, antique jewellery, painted lama tables known as choektse, drums, Tibetan violins and so forth.

In Tibetan Buddhism, an enlightened spiritual teacher ( lama ) may choose to reincarnate after death in order to continue to help people.

This city is also home for the renowned Tibetan lama Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, his family and his Ligmincha Institute.

In Tibetan, he said, the operative word is lama which means ' guru '.

* Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche a lama ( Tibetan Buddhist religious teacher ).

Tibetan Buddhism use the tulku system, an ancient way of finding the reincarnation of a previous deceased lama: they are usually young boys, sometimes of wealthy and influential families and sometimes of peasant families like the current 14th Dalai Lama, that are found and enthroned as the reincarnation of an enlightened person that has already deceased.

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 ).

Like many Tibetan Buddhist groups, the FPMT does not have " members " per se, or elections, but is managed by a self-perpetuating board of trustees chosen by its " spiritual director " ( head lama ).

Predecessor of Andernach chess was Tibetan chess, in which a black unit ( called lama ) changes colour when it captures a white piece of a different type.

However, in May 1881, this Lama sold Kinthup as a slave to another Tibetan lama.

This drew the attention of Kunga Dorje Rinpoche, a Tibetan lama who had been protecting the last remaining Buddha's tooth relic since the destruction of Namgyal Monastery in Tibet during the Cultural Revolution.

In Tibetan Buddhism, a tulku (, also tülku, trulku ) is a particular high-ranking lama ( e. g., the Dalai Lama, the Panchen Lama, the Karmapa ) who can choose the manner of his ( or her ) rebirth.

The Tibetan institution of the tulku as the emanation ( often misunderstood as the rebirth ) of a lama developed during the 12th, 13th, and 14th centuries, as various Schools of Tibetan Buddhism began to accept the possibility that exemplary figures might remain within the human world as institutional teachers, manifesting from one lifetime to the next out of compassion.

Perhaps the most religiously significant such tulku is Tenzin Ösel ( born 1985 ), the child of Spanish parents, who has been recognized as the reincarnation of Thubten Yeshe, an influential Tibetan lama.

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.

In Tantric Buddhism ( Vajrayana ) the vajra and ghanta ( bell ) are used in many rites by a lama or any Vajrayana practitioner of sadhanas.

Nydahl has been criticised for never going on a three-year retreat, which is a prerequisite for use of the title ' lama ' in some traditions of Buddhism.

When a great Tibetan lama dies, it is tradition in Tibetan Buddhism to find the next reincarnation to continue the work.

Travellers and Magicians () is a 2003 Bhutanese Dzongkha language film written and directed by Khyentse Norbu, a reincarnate lama of Tibetan Buddhism, who is also known as Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche.

" Even though the historic lineage of the Rites prior to the publication of Kelder's booklet remains to be ascertained, the Rites have nevertheless been affirmed by a lama and scholar of the Sa skya tradition of Tibetan Buddhism as being " a genuine form of yoga and were originally taken from an authentic Indo-Tibetan tantric lineage, namely a cycle of yantra-yoga associated with the Sadnadapadadharma.

He was ordained a lama in the Non-Sectarian Rime movement of Tibetan Buddhism.

Khenpo Jigme Phuntsok was the most influential lama of the Nyingma tradition of Tibetan Buddhism in contemporary Tibet.

The second incarnation was the renowned lama Dzongsar Khyentse Chokyi Lodro ( 1893 – 1959 ), who figured prominently in the export of Tantric Buddhism to the West as the root-teacher of a generation of influential and forward-thinking lamas.

Dzongsar Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö ( Jamyang Chökyi Lodrö, c. 1893 – 1959 ) was a Tibetan lama, a master of many lineages, and a teacher of many of the major figures in 20th-century Tibetan Buddhism.

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 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.