The Vajrayana of the Tibetan plateau and its four great schools, Nyingma, Kagyu, Sakya, and Gelug, ordered by monasteries, lineages, and reborn teachers.
Tibetan Buddhism is the form Vajrayana took on the plateau: a complete civilization of monasteries, scholastic debate, tantric practice, and the tulku institution. Its exile after 1959 carried it to India and the world.
Tibetan Buddhism across the site
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Sources
Primary
- Tsongkhapa, Lamrim Chenmo (1402).
Secondary
- Samten G. Karmay, The Arrow and the Spindle (1998).