Tibetan Buddhism (Vajrayāna) 티베트 불교 (금강승)
Mahayana compassion joined to the tantric methods of the 'diamond vehicle': mantra, visualisation and the guidance of a lama. Mountain caves have long sheltered its retreatants, like the poet-yogi Milarepa.
OriginTibet, the Himalaya, Mongolia
WhenFrom the 7th–8th c. CE
TextsKangyur and Tengyur; the Tibetan Book of the Dead (Bardo Thödol)
A practice you can try today
Om mani padme hum, prostrations, prayer wheels and flags, three-year retreats, compassion (tonglen) practice.
🕯 Pray in the Himalayan Cave Make your own caveSacred places
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Buddhism불교The path taught by Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha ('awakened one'): life is marked by suffering, suffering has a cause in craving, it can end, and the Eightfold Path leads there.Bön뵌교Tibet's indigenous religion, today a school standing beside Tibetan Buddhism with its own founder, Tonpa Shenrab.Yoga & Vedānta요가와 베단타Yoga is a discipline for stilling the movements of the mind; Vedānta is the philosophy that the deepest self (atman) is one with Brahman.
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