Tibetan Buddhism — [An alternative term, lamaism , apparently derives from Chinese lama jiao and was used to distinguish Tibetan Buddhism from Han Chinese Buddhism, fo jiao . The term was taken up by western scholars including Hegel, as early as 1822. (cite book… … Wikipedia
Kadam (Tibetan Buddhism) — The Kadam (bo|t=བཀའ་གདམས་པ་|w=Bka gdams pa) tradition was a Tibetan Mahayana Buddhist school. Dromtönpa, a Tibetan lay master and the foremost disciple of the great Indian Buddhist Master Atisha (982 1054), founded it and passed three lineages to … Wikipedia
Sarma — may refer to:*Sarma (surname), Brahmin surname in India *Sarma (food), Turkish dish popular in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and North Africa *Sarma (Tibetan Buddhism), three newest schools of Tibetan Buddhism *Sarma River, Russia, flowing into… … Wikipedia
Tibetan people — བོད་པ། 藏族 Top: Milarepa • Thubten Gyatso • Buton Rinchen Drub • Ngapoi Ngawang Jigme • Gendun Drup Bottom … Wikipedia
Tibetan Buddhist canon — The Tibetan Buddhist canon is a loosely defined list of sacred texts recognized by various sects of Tibetan Buddhism. In addition to sutrayana texts from Early Buddhist (mostly Sarvastivada) and Mahayana sources, the Tibetan canon includes… … Wikipedia
Ishta-deva (Buddhism) — In Vajrayana Buddhism, an Ishta deva or Ishta devata (Sanskrit) [ A Guide to the Buddhist Path , by Sangharakshita, Windhorse Publications: 1996. pg. 205 [http://books.google.com/books?id=7m0pVD FjE8C pg=PA205 lpg=PA205 dq=yidam+devata source=web … Wikipedia
Timeline of Buddhism — Foundation to the Common EraSome sources give the date of the Buddha s birth as 563 BCE and others as 624 BCE; Theravada Buddhist countries tend to use the latter figure. This displaces all the dates in the following table about 61 years further… … Wikipedia
Школы буддизма — Хронология развития и распространения буддийских школ ( 450 год до н. э. – 1300 год н. э.) … Википедия
Vajrasattva — Tibetan Vajrasattva holds the vajra in his right hand and a bell in his left hand. Vajrasattva (Sanskrit: वज्रसत्त्व, Tibetan: རྡོ་རྗེ་སེམས་དཔའ། Short form is dorsem རྡོར་སེམས།)[1] is a bodhisattva in the Mahayana, Mantrayana and Vajrayana b … Wikipedia
Nyingma — Tibetan name Tibetan: རྙིང་མ་ Wylie transliteration: rnying ma pronunciation in IPA: [ɲiŋma] … Wikipedia