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A century later another Jesuit, the Italian Ippolito Desideri (1684–1733) was sent to Tibet and received permission to stay in Lhasa where he spent 5 years (1716–1721) living in a Tibetan monastery, studying the language, the religion of the lamas and other Tibetan customs. [5] He published a couple of books in Tibetan on Christian doctrine.
Religion is extremely important to the Tibetans and has a strong influence over all aspects of their lives. [19] Bön is the ancient religion of Tibet, but nowadays the major influence is Tibetan Buddhism, a distinctive form of Mahayana and Vajrayana, which was introduced into Tibet from the Sanskrit Buddhist tradition of northern India. [20]
Tonpa Shenrab (Tibetan: སྟོན་པ་གཤེན་རབ་མི་བོ་།, Wylie: ston pa gshen rab་ mi bo, lit. ' Teacher Shenrab ' ), also known as Shenrab Miwo ( Wylie : gshen rab mi bo ), Buddha Shenrab , Guru Shenrab and a number of other titles, is the legendary founder of the Bon religious tradition of Tibet .
Tibet has national literature that has both religious, semi-spiritual and secular elements. While the religious texts are well-known, Tibet is also home to the semi-spiritual Gesar Epic, which is the longest epic in the world and is popular throughout Mongolia
Tibetan Buddhism has four major schools, namely Nyingma (8th century), Kagyu (11th century), Sakya (1073), and Gelug (1409). The Jonang is a smaller school that exists, and the Rimé movement (19th century), meaning "no sides", [5] is a more recent
Tibetan may mean: of, from, or related to Tibet; Tibetan people, an ethnic group; Tibetan language: Classical Tibetan, the classical language used also as a contemporary written standard; Standard Tibetan, the most widely used spoken dialect; Tibetan pinyin, a method of writing Standard Tibetan in Latin script; Tibetan script; any other of the ...
Yeti was adopted into Tibetan Buddhism, where it is considered a nonhuman animal that is nonetheless human enough to sometimes be able to follow Dharma. Several stories feature Yetis becoming helpers and disciples to religious figures. In Tibet, images of Yetis are paraded and occasionally worshipped as guardians against evil spirits.
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).