Earlier this month, a massive earthquake struck Tibet and severely damaged numerous monasteries and nunneries. Recent media articles since then have highlighted other ongoing threats to Tibetan ...

Tibetan Buddhism is animist, so there is no limit to the number of demons in existence, but the most important demons conquered by the Buddhas have complex mythologies. 1. Yama: The Demon of Death ...

it includes Tibetan and Zen Buddhism. also uses images to teach about life after death. The Wheel of Existence shows the different realms Buddhists can be reborn into. Belief in life after death ...

Each major religion in China has its own national ... Moinba, Tu and Yugur, to Tibetan Buddhism (also known as Lamaism), and the Dai, Blang and Deang to Hinayana or Southern Buddhism.

aiming to restrict Tibetan cultural expression and replace Tibetan Buddhist practices with state-controlled versions of religion. This includes the forced relocation of monks from monasteries ...

In meditation, Buddhists imagine the Buddha as a way of understanding Buddhist teachings. Tibetan Buddhists often use visualisation in meditation with the aim of imagining the Buddha so that they ...

Renée Ford completed her PhD at Rice University with a specialization in Tibetan Buddhism emphasizing sūtric and tantric meditation practices of the rNying ma tradition. Her other research interests ...

The spiritual leader of Tibet has published amply but seldom written in depth about politics. Now, as he approaches 90, he ...

His doctoral dissertation research is focused on Tibetan Buddhist non-celibate tantric ritual specialists ... He is interested in the study of religion, magic, witchcraft, esotericism(s), neo-paganism ...