Lamaism

The term Lamaism is now considered by some to be derogatory.

Lamaism, a form of Buddhism, is the traditional religion.

The temple was predominantly painted yellow because yellow is sacred in Lamaism.

This remarkable convergence of modern astrophysics and ancient lamaism demands no complicated explanation.

Lamaism is mainly professed by the Northern Nu, although Christianity has made some inroads into the southern group.

The Iconography of Tibetan Lamaism.

Religion: No state religion, but traces of Buddhist Lamaism and Shamanism still survive.

However there are a significant number of Daurs who have taken up Lamaism (Tibetan Buddhism).

In the West, it is commonly referred to as Lamaism, from the name of the Tibetan monks, the lamas ("heavy with wisdom").

Gets them interested in Taoism and Lamaism and then plays on their superstitions and blackmails them.

Religion: no state religion; Buddhist Lamaism and Shamanism; 4% Moslem.

Kantyua means 'the translated word of Buddha' and the sacred texts of Lamaism are collected in it.

While the rest of the world followed feudalistic warrior development during the medieval period throughout Europe and Asia, Tibet uniquely established Lamaism.

Erdene Zuu, built between the 16th and 19th century, was the first center of Lamaism in Mongolia.

The most distinguished and eminent among all was Atisa Dipankara, the founder of Lamaism in Tibet.

A number of temples and shrines were scattered throughout the Inner Court, including that of Tibetan Buddhism or Lamaism.

In 1922, he crossed the Himalayas on foot and reached Tibet, where he studied Buddhistic philosophy and Lamaism.

Bhutan is the last remaining country in which Buddhism in its tantric, vajrayana form, also called lamaism, is the state religion.

Tibetan Buddhist Lamaism 96%, Muslim (primarily in the southwest), Shamanism, and Christian 4% (1998)

There, the Uyghur converted from Manichaeism to Lamaism, Tibetan and Mongol Buddhism.

Nevertheless, there is some evidence that outside of lamaism, there were practices of tantric human sacrifice which survived throughout the medieval period, and possibly into modern times.

But he expressed bewilderment that many educated Americans and Europeans would believe in Lamaism and blindly support the Dalai Lama's calls for greater autonomy.

Xilituzhao Temple is the largest Lamaist temple in the Höhhot area, and once the center of power of Lamaism in the region.

He institutionalized Buddhism in the region; these monasteries are considered the mainstay of Vajrayana of Tibetan Buddhism (also known as Lamaism).

In 1895 Waddell published his book Buddhism of Tibet or Lamaism, which was one of the first works published in the west on Buddhism.