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Tibetan Buddhism [a] is a form of Buddhism practiced in Tibet, Bhutan and Mongolia. It also has a sizable number of adherents in the areas surrounding the Himalayas, including the Indian regions of Ladakh, Darjeeling, Sikkim, and Zangnan (Arunachal Pradesh), as well as in Nepal.
Since then Tibetan Buddhism has played a very important role among the Mongols. Tibetan Buddhism was the most important religion among the Mongols under Qing rule (1635–1912), as well as the state religion of the Kalmyk Khanate (1630–1771), the Dzungar Khanate (1634–1758) and the Khoshut Khanate (1642–1717).
The Gelug (/ ɡ ə ˈ l uː ɡ /, also Geluk; lit. 'virtuous') [1] is the newest of the four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism. [2] It was founded by Je Tsongkhapa (1357–1419), a Tibetan philosopher, tantric yogi and lama and further expanded and developed by his disciples (such as Khedrup Je, Gyaltsap Je, Dulzin Drakpa Gyaltsen, and Gendün ...
Tsongkhapa (Tibetan: ཙོང་ཁ་པ་, [tsoŋˈkʰapa], meaning: "the man from Tsongkha" or "the Man from Onion Valley", [1] c. 1357–1419) was an influential Tibetan Buddhist monk, philosopher and tantric yogi, whose activities led to the formation of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism [2] as a synthesis of the earlier Kadampa school lineages.
The Nyingma school was founded by Padmasambhava [2] as the first translations of Buddhist scriptures from Pali and Sanskrit into Tibetan occurred in the eighth century. [1] The establishment of the Tibetan Buddhism and the Nyingma tradition is collectively ascribed to Khenpo Shantarakshita , Guru Padmasambhava , and King Trisong Detsen , known ...
2nd Ganden Tripa Gyaltsab Je (1364-1432) The Ganden Tripa, also spelled Gaden Tripa (Wylie: dga’ ldan khri pa "Holder of the Ganden Throne"), is the title of the spiritual leader of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism, the school that controlled central Tibet from the mid-17th century until the 1950s.
“A letter to the editors of the Buddhist canon in fourteenth-century Tibet: the yig mkhan rnams la gdams pa of Bu ston Rin chen grub.” in The Journal of the American Oriental Society 01-APR-2004; Obermiller, E. (1931/1932) The History of Buddhism in India and Tibet. the Jewelry of Scripture, by Bu Ston, Translated from Tibetan.
Atiśa's chief disciple, Dromtön, was the founder of the Kadam school, [4] one of the New Translation schools of Tibetan Buddhism, later supplanted by the Gelug tradition in the 14th century which adopted its teachings and absorbed its monasteries.