Tibetan lamaism

The Iconography of Tibetan Lamaism.

During his youth, spent mostly in Bushwick, he sold marijuana, trained in martial arts and dabbled in Hinduism, Buddhism and Tibetan Lamaism.

He began reading various esoteric texts and gradually delved deeper into the occult, alchemy, magic, and Oriental studies, particularly Tibetan Lamaism and Vajrayanist tantric yoga.

Volume 1 introduces the theory and provides historical examples of the functioning of general economy: human sacrifice in Aztec society, the monastic institutions of Tibetan Lamaism, the Marshall Plan, and many others.

Still other influences have shaped Buddhism in Nepal, including Tibetan Lamaism; photographs of the Dalai Lama, the Tibetans' spiritual leader, are often seen in homes and shops in Katmandu.

Their religion was - and surreptitiously still is - a combination of Tibetan Lamaism, Chinese Taoism and a far, far older shamanistic belief: in the spirits of cloud and wind and pine.

Matthias Hermanns, 'Tibetan Lamaism up to the Time of the Reform by Tzon kha pa,' in The Journal of the Anthropological Society of Bombay, new series, vol.

Within Tibetan Lamaism, Bogdo Gegen ranked as the third potentate after the Dalai Lama and the Panchen Lama, and from 1911 until his death, he was also the Emperor of Mongolia.

En route cross the Tsangpo River by ferry to visit the Samye and Mindroling Monastery, the only remaining monastery of the Red Hat sect, the oldest and most unchanged sect of Tibetan Lamaism.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons), Secret Sect of Tibetan Lamaism (Mizong Buddhism), and Unification Church are also registered but did not provide membership statistics.