Tibetan Buddhism

Recently, the spiritual leader of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism, Dalai Lama has named a US-born Mongolian boy as the tenth Khalkha Jetsun Dhampa, the head of the Janang tradition of Tibetan Buddhism and the Buddhist spiritual head of Mongolia.

Tibetan Buddhism

• It is a form of Buddhism practiced in Tibet and Mongolia.
• It combines the essential teachings of Mahayana Buddhism with Tantric and Shamanic, and material from an ancient Tibetan religion called Bon.
• Tibetan Buddhist tradition places great emphasis on the importance of the lama (the Tibetan equivalent of the Sanskrit term guru). These venerable teachers are often given the ....